THE CONSCIENCE OF MAN

Conscience! conscience! man’s most faithful friend! — Crabbe.

Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.—Byron.

If conscience smite thee once, it is an admonition; if twice, it is a condemnation.

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!— Hawthorne.

I am more afraid of my own heart, than of the Pope and all his cardinals. — I have within me the great Pope, self. — Luther.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, as the passions are the voice of the body.—No wonder they often contradict each other.—Rousseau.

A good conscience is the palace of Christ, the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints.—Augustine.

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge, but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. — The act against conscience is to act against reason and God’s law.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and is suffered to dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.—Watts.

Conscience — that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose still, small voice the loudest revelry cannot drown.—Harrison.

He will easily be content and at peace whose conscience is pure.—Thomas a Kempis

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the Word of God.—Tryon Edwards.

Our conscience is a fire within us, and our sins as the fuel; instead of warming it will scorch us, unless the fuel be removed, or the heat of it be allayed by penitential tears.—Mason.

There is no witness so terrible — no accuser so powerful as a conscience whcih dwells within us. —Sophocles.

Conscience, true as the needle to the pole points steadily to the pole-star of God’s eternal justice, reminding the soul of the fearful realities of the life to come.—Gillett.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes as a judge.—Stanislaus.

A disciplined conscience is a man’s best friend. —It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.—Phelps.

Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency asks, Is it polite? Vanity asks, Is it popular? but conscience asks, Is it right?—Punshon.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.—Burton.

“I am going to Hell.” — An old schoolmaster, with others, was sitting in a publican’s house playing cards. The publican’s son who had come to conversion passed through the room, and as he passed, the schoolmaster said as a taunt to the young convert, “I am going to hell.” Had he known it he might have truthfully added two more words, “To-night.” That evening, while in the act of pulling off his coat, he fell down dead at his bedside (Luke 12:20).

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