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Conscience
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“A good conscience is a continual feast, but sin mars all the mirth!”
“He who makes no conscience of little sins makes conscience of no sins.”
“If a man makes no conscience of little sins, to which the temptations can be only little, then how little conscience is he likely to make of great sins, to which there are greater temptations?”
“A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.”
“Conscience which should have been the sinner's curb here on earth becomes the sinner's whip that will lash his soul in hell.”
“Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.”
“Reprove compassionately. Soft words and hard arguments do well together. Passion will heat the sinner's blood, but compassion will heal his conscience.”
“Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.”
“Many a lash in the dark doth conscience give the wicked.”
“We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience. It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.”
“As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.”
“Self-examination is setting up a court in the conscience and keeping a register there, that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.”
“Conscience is a bosom-preacher. Sometimes it convinces, sometimes it reproves.”
“Willful ignorance is in itself willful sin, and the evil that comes of it is without excuse.”
“It is in vain when conscience is aroused to fly to feelings and evidences for comfort.”
“The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.”
“A good conscience and a good confidence go together.”
“It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.”
“Every circumstance in every sin will then be as a dagger at your heart.”
“Peace of conscience, is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.”
“No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.”
“He cannot be a bold reprover that is not a conscientious liver; such a one must speak softly, for fear of waking his own guilty conscience.”
“The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it; the course of the world takes away the shame of it.”
“Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.”
“Reader, bethink thyself, how long was it since thy conscience was roused and awakened?”
“Sincerity—which is the thing sought, lies in the heart like a small piece of gold on the bottom of a river; he who would find it must stay until the water is clear, and then he will see it sparkling at the bottom.”
“What an excellent thing is this, that we may keep sessions in our own souls, and so need not be called to God’s assizes!”
“Therefore let us be under the means that may preserve tenderness, and hear what God's word says of our estate by nature, of the wrath and justice of God, and of the judgment that will shortly come upon all the world.”
“The consciousness of God is as natural to man as his ability to reason.”
“And in consideration hereof they must make a conscience of all sin both in thought, word, and deed through the whole course of their lives.”