Conscience (14)
Bee-masters tell us, that they are the best hives which make the greatest noise; so that conscience is the best which makes the greatest noise in daily reasonings and debates before it's own bar.
We must be ready to give up anything and everything for the sake of the principles which we have espoused, and must be ready to offend our best supporters, to alienate our warmest friends, sooner than belie our consciences.Lectures to my Students
If you speak and live as those who know God sees you, your uprightness will be such that you will not care if the whole world sees you too. An artist came to Drusius (a Protestant theologian) offering to build a house into which no one could see, thereby allowing him to do whatever he wanted in private. "No," said Drusius, "build it so that every one can see."Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 101
When the Christian looks every night for the coming of God's deputy, his conscience, to spy and search into his heart and life... it will be a special means to make him watchful over his ways, and exact in his carriage and conversation.
There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If, therefore, we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.
We lose much tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against sin, much of that lively diligence that we should otherwise show forth in carrying on the spiritual life, when we are at ease, and all things go well with us.
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As fear follows guilt and guile, so peace and quietness follow righteousness and sincerity.Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 99
His confidence is great because his conscience is quiet. The peace of God guards his heart and mind.Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 99
This atheistic age mocks conscience and scorns purity. Let them laugh, for these things will make you laugh when they cry.Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 101
A man of ripe and rich development will rather become a voluntary exile, will rather suffer imprisonment, nay, even sacrifice life itself, than tolerate constraint in the form of conscience.
The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay. If you keep listening, and keep listening, and keep listening and keep denying the role your conscience plays you're gonna get very good at becoming hard. Resolved 2005
As sinners we are adept at searing out consciences. We are masters of rationalization by which we mute the accusing sound of the inner voice. Mystery of the Holy Spirit (108)
A good conscience is one trained by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. When we understand God's truth clearly and are convicted by it firmly, then the governor of conscience begins to
rule us into righteousness. Mystery of the Holy Spirit (109)
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