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
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.
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)