Conscience is the voice of God in the soul.
– James H. Aughey
Conscience
I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.
– C.S. Lewis
Conscience
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Preaching | Conscience
Never decide on anything or start to do anything while emotion is agitating like a roaring sea. Again, during that time even our conscience is rendered unreliable.
– Watchman Nee
Character | Conscience
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
– George Washington
Conscience
Without God, there is no virtue because there’s no prompting of the conscience. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
– Ronald Reagan
Conscience
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
– Martin Luther
Conscience | Feelings
Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
– Thomas a Kempis
Conscience | Rest | The Heart
Whatever conscience condemns is condemned by God. Can the holiness of God pursue a lower standard than our conscience?
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
– George Washington
Conscience | Fire
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
– Thomas a Kempis
Conscience | Peace
We can serve God only with a clear conscience. An opaque one shall surely cause us to shrink back intuitively from God.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Service
No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.
– Thomas Watson
Conscience
if you have felt the power and authority of the word upon your conscience; if you can say as David, “Thy word hath quickened me.” Christian, bless God that he has not only given thee his word to be a rule of holiness, but his grace to be a principle of holiness.
– Thomas Watson
Conscience | Holiness
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Conscience | Community
Responsibility is measured, not by the amount of injury resulting from wrong action, but by the distinctness with which conscience has the opportunity of distinguishing between the right and the wrong.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Conscience | Responsibility
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
– Martin Luther
Conscience
The proper seat of sin is the will, of comfort the conscience.
– William Gurnall
Conscience | Comfort
Conscience in most men is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
– Jeremy Taylor
Conscience | Men
The real war is inward of which the outer action is but the echo and reverberation.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Conscience
Doubling the consecration will not silence the accusing monitor; its voice must be followed; that and nothing else can ever please God. Conscience simply demands our obedience; it does not require us to serve God in any spectacular way.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Consecration
In the heart of every man lurks a sense of inner wrongness and a conscience that will not be silenced.
– John Hagee
Conscience | The Heart
What ground is left for accusation since sin’s penalty has been fully paid? The blood of the Lord has atoned for all the sins of a believer; hence there is no more condemnation in the conscience.
– Watchman Nee
Atonement | Conscience
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Conscience | Justice
Many times men criticize us when we actually are following the Lord. Outside praise or criticism is inconsequential; but the testimony of our quickened conscience is momentous.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Criticism
Conscience comes to us in lonely hours; it wakens us in the night; it stands at the side of the bed and says, Come, wake up and listen to me! And there it holds us with its remorseless eye; and our buried sins rise out of the grave of the past; they march by in melancholy procession; and we lie in terror looking at them. Nobody knows but ourselves. Next morning we go forth to business with a smiling face; but conscience has had its revenge.
– James Stalker
Conscience
In fact, in helping other people we should not coerce obedience from them in small details but only advice them to follow faithfully the dictate of their own conscience.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Helping
If our inward monitor judges us to be wrong we must in fact be wrong. When it condemns, let us repent immediately. We must never attempt to cover our sin or bribe our conscience.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
We must stress the precious blood and the conscience proportionally. Some strongly insist on the latter but overlook the former; consequently sinners try hard to repent and to do good, hoping in this way to propitiate God’s wrath with their own merits. Others emphasize the precious blood but neglect conscience.
– Watchman Nee
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.
– William Gurnall
Conscience
A believer can make no genuine spiritual progress if he is reluctant to have his evil conscience judged in God’s light and clearly dealt with.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Judging
The enemy utilizes this desire of keeping the conscience void of offense by accusing us of various things. In mistaking such accusations as being from our own consciences we often lose our peace, tire of trying to keep pace with false accusations, and thus cease to advance spiritually with confidence.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Satan
It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, “Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to.” We are ashamed, are we not, of things we’ve done in the past? Nobody is free who is unforgiven. Instead of being able to look God in the face or to look one another in the face, we want to run away and hide when our conscience troubles us.
– John Stott
Conscience
Yet, having fully obeyed the dictates of conscience, we must not visualize ourselves as now “perfect.”
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
On the other hand, were we to permit to remain even the tiniest little sin which we know our conscience has condemned, we instantly would lose that perfect fellowship with God.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Sin | Fellowship
The federal courts need to respect the rights of the great majority of the American people who believe in God and recognize that the only purpose of the religion clause of the First Amendment is to preserve the rights of conscience given to us by the Creator.
– Judge Roy Moore
America | Conscience
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford
Trials | Conscience | Prosperity
It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
– Martin Luther
Conscience
A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing; that is, a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun it as the eyelid closes itself against the mote.
– Assorted Authors
Conscience | Discernment
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can’t really get rid of it.
– C.S. Lewis
Conscience
Tenderness of conscience is always to be distinguished from scrupulousness. The conscience cannot be kept too sensitive and tender; but scrupulousness arises from bodily or mental infirmity, and discovers itself in a multitude of ridiculous, superstitious, and painful feelings.
– Richard Cecil
Conscience | Feelings
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
– C.S. Lewis
Conscience | The Heart
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Conscience
Countless are those Christians who have disregarded their conscience in the past and are now unlively, merely holding some dead knowledge in their brain.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
The godly man sometimes may be so overclouded with calumnies and reproaches as not to be able to find a way to clear themselves before men, but must content and comfort themselves with the testimony of a good conscience and with God’s approval of their integrity.
– David Dickson
Conscience
One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.
– Thomas Fuller
Conscience | The Tongue
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
– C.S. Lewis
Pain | Conscience
Conscience, in the cause of religion and the worship of the Deity, prepares the mind to act and to suffer beyond almost all other causes.
– Daniel Webster
Conscience | God
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the ‘spirited element.’
– C.S. Lewis
Conscience
Conscience which should have been the sinner’s curb here on earth becomes the sinner’s whip that will lash his soul in hell. That which was the seat and center of all guilt now becomes the seat and center of all torment.
– John Flavel
Conscience | Hell
Let us therefore not deceive ourselves. In walking according to the spirit we shall hear the direction of conscience. Do not try to escape any inward reproach; rather, be attentive to its voice.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | The Holy Spirit | Deception
A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself.
– Thomas Fuller
Conscience
A disciplined conscience is a man’s best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
– Austin Phelps
Conscience
Whenever a believer is therefore reproved by his conscience his immediate response should be: “Lord, I am willing to obey.”
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience.
– Thomas a Kempis
Conscience
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
– C.S. Lewis
Conscience
A good conscience and a good confidence go together.
– Thomas Brooks
Conscience
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
– Martin Luther
Justice | Conscience
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?
– William Wilberforce
Eternity | Conscience | Justice
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
– Karl Barth
Conscience
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
– Thomas Brooks
Conscience
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
– Origen
Conscience
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
– George Herbert
Conscience | The Heart
My conscience is captive to the Word of God.
– Martin Luther
Conscience
Believers simply do not realize how very significant their conscience is.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
– C.S. Lewis
Sin | Conscience
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
– John Calvin
Conscience
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.
– Samuel Rutherford
Conscience
If you and I are to meet Christ with joy when He comes, we must make quite sure that our consciences are up to the mark with Him where He is in God’s presence; able to be in identification with Him up there in the light: if not, you will not be able to meet His face with joy.
– G.V. Wigram
Conscience | Joy
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.
– Richard Baxter
Conscience | Holiness
A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God’s will.
– Winkie Pratney
Conscience
A good conscience will save no man, wash away no sin, not lift us one hair’s breadth towards heaven. Yet a good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
– J. C. Ryle
Conscience | Death
Only an unconditional and unrestricted acceptance of the reproach of conscience with a corresponding willingness to do what is revealed can show how perfect is our consecration, how truly we hate sin how sincerely we desire to do God’s will.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Consecration
Conscience is God’s deputy in the soul.
– Thomas Adams
Conscience
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
– William Gurnall
Conscience
Good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it.
– James H. Aughey
Conscience | Money
It is a good thing to have a heart within us smiting us for sins that seem little; it is a sign that conscience is awake and tender, and will be the means of preventing greater sins.
– Matthew Henry
Conscience
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
– Jeremy Taylor
Conscience | Reasoning
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.
– John Flavel
Conscience
If we were more disposed today to mind the voice of conscience we would not be as defeated as we are.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
Conscience is a God-given current standard of holiness.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience
The conscience is a built-in warning system that signals us when something we have done is wrong. The conscience is to our souls what pain sensors are to our bodies: it inflicts distress, in the form of guilt, whenever we violate what our hearts tell us is right.
– John MacArthur
Conscience
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
– C.S. Lewis
Conscience
As conscience grows more passive and the evil spirit supplies his guidance, some Christians begin to lower their moral standard – thinking they henceforth live according to a higher life principle, and therefore treat immoral matters as not quite so immoral any more.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Immorality
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
– Isaac Watts
Conscience | Sin
In addition to their willingness to yield to conscience’s reproof, spiritual believers should also learn how to discern the accusation of the enemy.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Satan | Discernment
Naturally there are many reasons for not possessing greater faith, but the gravest of these is probably an evil conscience. A good conscience is inseparable from a great faith.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Faith
If one’s conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Mercy | Unbelief
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
– John Henry Newman
Conscience
Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | The Holy Spirit | Confession