Out of pastoral concern for the terrified consciences of people who were buying church indulgences to cover their sins, Luther articulated a corollary conviction about the source of salvation: «Not by such «good works.»» (religion-online.org)
If any broad, unlimited power to hold laws unconstitutional because they offend what this Court conceives to be the «[collective] conscience of our people» is vested in this Court by the Ninth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, or any other provision of the Constitution, it was not given by the Framers, but rather has been bestowed on the Court by the Court. (firstthings.com)
Perhaps, in a quickly changing world where law always loiters behind the moral conscience of people, it is no longer right to judge the morality of actions exclusively according to the prescriptions of the law. (religion-online.org)