He is also a great
voice of conscience for the world.
Not exact matches
How we discharge the duties
of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism
of the last two decades, or by raising our
voices on behalf
of the laws and democratic norms
of our country — is a question
of moral
conscience, suitable
for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.
For, after all, what is eternity's accounting other than that the
voice of conscience is forever installed with its eternal right to be the exclusive
voice?
Each human being can choose to believe or not to believe — but
for all
of my friends who are indeed atheists — when I ask them the question do you ever listen to an inner speaking that you take to be your
conscience /
voice / guide (whichever term you prefer) speak to you — they all say resoundingly YES.
Should anyone feel inclined to toast the two parties it should surely be simultaneously; the magisterium as the
voice of Christ,
conscience for having recognised the fact.
Such a concept is opaque,
for it does not cohere with any exercise
of «freedom» as we know it on earth, nor with that inner sense
of joy in obedience to God as «loved Person» which we sense when we obey the
voice of conscience.
That may be because the authority
of the spirit, known as
conscience or the
voice of God, has been externalized in the current worldview into a fearful deity that is just looking
for the chance to inflict punishment and vengeance.
Another way
of looking at it,
for those
of you who don't believe in God, is that the little
voice in your head is your
conscience speaking to you.
And Free Methodist Gilbert James
of Asbury Theological Seminary has been one
of the strongest
voices for social
conscience within conservative Christendom.
They should be the
voice of the moral
conscience of humanity pleading
for the poor, the dispossessed and the victims
of violence.
[23] As far as
conscience was concerned, «Revelation consists in the manifestation
of the Invisible Divine Power, or in the substitution
of the
voice of a Lawgiver
for the
voice of conscience.
Mary Brosnahan, the head
of Coalition
for the Homeless and «a
voice of conscience,» according to de Blasio, said, «It's really hard to overstate the significance
of this tremendous announcement» and called it «a victory
for all New Yorkers.»
Finally, it can be a kind
of conscience and forum
for the profession, speaking with a strong editorial
voice about social and public - policy issues and enabling conversations about those issues within the profession.