TCR 666
. . . conscience regarded in itself
is not any distress,
but is a spiritual willingness
to do what religion and faith dictate.
Thus it is that those who enjoy a conscience
live in tranquil peace and inward blessedness
when they act according to conscience,
and in some unease when they act against it.
[3] All who have a conscience
speak from the heart when they speak,
and act from the heart when they act;
for they have their minds undivided,
speaking and doing
according to what they understand and believe
truth and good to be.
. . . It is in true conscience
that a person's actual spiritual life resides,
for there his faith is conjoined to charity.
For such people therefore
acting according to conscience
is acting according to one's spiritual life,
and acting against conscience
is for them
acting against that life of theirs.
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