court of conscience

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They are not sufficient proof in any court of conscience, law, or public opinion.

From The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors by Sherley, George Douglass

In the virtues, so-called, he should discern only the rough notes of a general expediency; in fixed moral principles only time-saving predecisions of cases not yet before the court of conscience.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

Now, in what was this court of conscience better than these cannibals?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

One may have worried long in the preparation and preliminaries of the issue, one may bring the case at last into the final court of conscience in an apparently hopeless tangle.

From God the Invisible King by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Therefore human law cannot impose its precept in a Divine court, such as is the court of conscience.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint