“The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.” MenHeartStatesForceSinExampleHabitConscienceAddIntellectWickedSinnerRepentanceAssociationBad HabitsAffinityGood ExamplesTransgressionIncline Author:Edward Thomson
“Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.” MenSocialOpinionHabitConscienceConventionsAssuranceComfortingConsensusBorrowed Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.” MeanBookEyeSpiritLyingPassionUnderstandingChristStudySeeingHabitCostConscienceSensitivePurityExpensiveDiscernmentDaily Habits Author:S. D Gordon
“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.” PastPassionEvilMemoriesEnemyFiguresPrideHabitConscienceDeedsPursueSelfishnessMalice Author:George A. Smith
“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.” PeopleKnowsMindWhiteKnow HowHabitConscienceCleanNotionGravesSnowSailCradleSnow WhiteHabits Of Mind Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, confirmed by instruction and habit, all combined, constitute our moral sense or conscience.” MenFirstsSelfReasonFeelingsSocialInterestReligiousMoralHabitEthicsConscienceFellowsInstinctComplexesSentimentsInstructionFellow ManSelf Interest Book:Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
“The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.” MenRealityFunnySexSpaceOpinionFashionHe ManHabitMoralityClothesConscienceIdealsResponseFree WillPollsTransparencyLiberatedPollingOpinion Polls Author:Jean Baudrillard
“Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.” IfsKnowsMindHeartMayLittlesMomentsEyeSinDangerousHabitConscienceSightLaysResolveCustomsDelayAttacking Author:J. C. Ryle