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“Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.”

“Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!”

Ifs Men Art Comfort Conscience Checks Ease Faithful Friendly Woe Foe Faithful Friends

Book:George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

Source: George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

“Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.”

Comfort Conscience

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Want Giving Mean Hard Age Action Enjoy Born Hours Wealth Pleasure Poverty Clear Comfort Conscience Labor Guilt Wealth And Poverty

Book:The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

“To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.”

World Comfort Calling Conscience Regard Rebel Sorrowful

Author:Martin Luther

“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”

“The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul”

“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”

Knows Want Giving Reason Names Fine Comfort Conscience Hunting Righteous Plausible

Book:No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

Source: No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger