“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