20170803
Patricia Highsmith
He poked a finger at Ingham. "The ways of Araby are strange as her perfumes. Yes! But you are a son of the West. May your conscience let you rest! Ha-ha! That rhymes. Unintentional. Bye-bye, Howard, and God bless you!" (The Tremor of Forgery)
20170802
Books on conscience
2017 The art of turning
Kevin DeYoung
2016 Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ
Naselli and Crowley
2012 Pure Joy: Rediscover your conscience
Christopher Ash
2010 The Conscience
Robert Solomon
Kevin DeYoung
2016 Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ
Naselli and Crowley
2012 Pure Joy: Rediscover your conscience
Christopher Ash
2010 The Conscience
Robert Solomon
1996 Honesty, Morality, and Conscience
Jerry White
1994 The vanishing conscience
John MacArthur
Jerry White
1994 The vanishing conscience
John MacArthur
1989 Living With Your Conscience Without Going Crazy!
Dr Joel A Freeman
1984 Your conscience as your guide
1963 Church and State1984 Your conscience as your guide
Peter Toon
1983 Meet your conscience, Back to the Bible
Warren Wiersbe
1973 Let Conscience Speak
David Fountain
1972 Liberty of Conscience
John Van Til
J Marcellus Kik
1969 The Pauline use of Suneidesis
NT Studies
1969 Conscience and Responsibility
Eric Mount Jr
1968 The Christian Conscience
Philippe Delahaye
1961 Paul and Seneca
Jan Sevenster
1960 Contemporary Moral Theology
J C Ford and G Kelly
1963 Ethics in a Christian Context
P Lehmannn
1961 Conscience and its right to Freedom
Eric D'Arcy
1956 Christ and Conscience
N H G Robinson1956 The Voice of Conscience
A M Rehwinkel
1950 Conscience
Ole Hallesby
1950 Conscience
Ole Hallesby
1927 Conscience and its Problems
Kenneth E Kirk
1917 Conscience and Christ: Six lectures on Christian ethics
H Rashdall
1888 The Christian Conscience: A Contribution on Christian Ethics
W T Davison
1888 The Christian Conscience: A Contribution on Christian Ethics
W T Davison
1878 Unexplored remainders of Conscience With Preludes on Current Events
Joseph Cook
1838 Conscience considered chiefly in reference to moral and religious obligation
1838 Conscience considered chiefly in reference to moral and religious obligation
1685 Heaven upon earth
James Durham
1640 The soul's looking glass
William Fenner
1639 Consciences with the power and cases thereof
William Ames
1630 Christian see to thy conscience
Richard Bernard
1626 The anatomy of conscience, or, The sum of Pauls regeneracy
Ephraim Huitt
1608 Whole treatise of the cases of conscience
William Perkins
20170610
Martin Luther 2
Although I lived a blameless life as a monk, I felt that I was a sinner with an uneasy conscience before God. I also could not believe that I had pleased him with my works. Far from loving that righteous God who punished sinners, I actually hated him. I was a good monk, and kept my order so strictly that if ever a monk could get to heaven by monastic discipline, I was that monk. All my companions in the monastery would confirm this. ... And yet my conscience did not give me certainty, but I always doubted and said, "You didn't do that right. You weren't contrite enough. You left that out of your confession."
20170328
Jonathan Edwards
Natural conscience consists in these two things.
1. In that disposition to approve or disapprove the moral treatment which passes between us and others, from a determination of the mind to be easy or uneasy, in a consciousness of our being consistent or inconsistent with ourselves. Hereby we have a disposition to approve our own treatment of another, when we are conscious to ourselves that we treat him so as we should expect to be treated by him, were he in our case and we in his; and to disapprove of our own treatment of another, when we are conscious that we should be displeased with the like treatment from him, if we were in his case. So we in our consciences approve of another’s treatment of us, if we are conscious to ourselves, that if we were in his case, and he in ours, we should think it just to treat him as he treats us; and disapprove his treatment of us, when we are conscious that we should think it unjust, if we were in his case. Thus men’s consciences approve or disapprove the sentence of their judge, by which they are acquitted or condemned. But this is not all ... there is another thing that must precede it, and be the foundation of it. ...
2. The other thing which belongs to the approbation or disapprobation of natural conscience, is the sense of desert ... consisting ... in a natural agreement, proportion, and harmony, between malevolence or injury, and resentment and punishment; or between loving and being loved, between showing kindness and being rewarded, &c. Both these kinds of approving or disapproving, concur in the approbation or disapprobation of conscience: the one founded on the other. Thus, when a man’s conscience disapproves of his treatment of his neighbour, in the first place, he is conscious, that if he were in his neighbour’s stead, he should resent such treatment from a sense of justice, or from a sense of uniformity and equality between such treatment, and resentment, and punishment ... And then, in the next place, he perceives, that therefore he is not consistent with himself, in doing what he himself should resent in that case; and hence disapproves it, as being naturally averse to opposition to himself.
Dissertation on the nature of true virtue Chapter 5
20170316
Harper Lee
"Atticus, you must be wrong...."
"How's that?"
"Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong...."
"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
From To Kill a mockingbird
20170210
Charles Buxton
It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if a single stitch drops. One single sin indulged in makes a hole you could put your head through.
Notes of Thought (No 456)
Notes of Thought (No 456)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din:
Whatever creed be taught, or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the Oracle of God.
The Island Canto 6
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din:
Whatever creed be taught, or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the Oracle of God.
The Island Canto 6
Petrus Forestus
If they be solitary given, superstitious, precise, or very devout: seldom shall you find a merchant, a soldier, an innkeeper, a bawd, a host, a usurer, so troubled in mind, they have cheverel* consciences that will stretch, they are seldom moved in this kind or molested: young men and middle age are more wild and less apprehensive; but old folks, most part, such as are timorous and religiously given.
*soft leather for gloves
Anselm
My conscience dictates to me that I deserve damnation, my repentance will not suffice for satisfaction: but thy mercy, O Lord, quite overcometh all my transgressions.
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