Were it not for this voice, speaking so clearly in my conscience and my heart, I should be an atheist, or a pantheist, or a polytheist when I looked into the world.
Children aren't born knowing how to say " I'm sorry" ; rather, they learn over time that such statements appease parents and friends and their own consciences.
And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with modest effort.
As philosopher Paul Ricoeur put it, forgiveness is not amnesty: " Amnesty is organised forgetting and it has nothing to do with the pacification that forgiveness can bring between two consciences" .
The idiom, an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other describes a personal dilemma where someone must choose whether to follow their conscience or not.
习语“an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other”描述了一个人必须在是否遵循良心之间做出选择的个人困境。