There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
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We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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Titus 1:15:
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
(NIV)
To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.
(AMP)
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
(KJV)
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Hebrews 9:14:
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
(NIV)
How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?
(AMP)
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
(KJV)
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I conceive the essential task of religion to be 'to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind'.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
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Bachelors have consciences. Married men have wives.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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