Leonard Ravenhill

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

Leonard Revenhill

John Humphrys

It is difficult to understand the existence of conscience without accepting the existence of something beyond ourselves ... What you cannot do is dismiss it. It exists and is unique to human beings

In God we doubt p. 243

John Hirst

... But I had as thousands of sinners in similar circumstances have an inward monitor which informed me that religion was the one thing needful. I therefore ....

Hirst lived 1737-1815 and was a Baptist minister in Bacup, Lancs. Here, he refers to his desire to marry someone religious, though yet unconverted.

St Cadoc

There is no loud voice save that which no one hears - conscience.

Stephen Charnock 4

If conscience speak anything for a man’s comfort, that is not according to the word, it is to be silenced; if conscience presents us with anything as a grace, that will not hold water before God, it is to be rejected in that ease; bring it to the touch-stone to see if it, be current coin. As we are to try other men’s spirits, so our own, by this rule; it is a part of man’s sinful ambition to be his own judge, and so to make his own fancy his rule.

On Self-examnation

Stephen Charnock 3

Doct. Self-examination is a necessary duty, belonging to every one in the church, and requires much diligence in the performing of it.

Hence some observe, that when it is expressed that God created man in his own image, (Gen 1:27) In the image of God created he him - the word is Elohim, which is a name of God belonging to his judicial acts, which imply trial and examination; in the image of Elohim created he him, ie with a power of self-trial and self-judging. This self-examination is an exact and thorough search into a man’s self, an exquisite consideration in what posture he stands to God.

The word is the rule, a glass wherein we see God’s will;

and conscience is the examiner, that is, the glass wherein we see our lives and the motions of our hearts, and which, by the help of the word, doth dissect and open the soul to itself.

On Self-examination

Thomas Watson 05

Self-examination is the setting up a court in conscience and keeping a register there, that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul. Self-examination is a spiritual inquisition; a bringing one's self to trial. A good Christian doth as it were begin the day of Judgment here in his own soul.

Heaven Taken by Storm

Matthew Henry 4

The best way to have a good night, is to keep a good conscience.

Commentary Daniel 6

Mark Twain

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

John Bunyan 2

... if that light that every human receives were able, by our following it, to save us, then Christis needed not to have suffered, seeing all men had that light. If and that light that every man hath, which is conscience, were able to safely lead a man to justification by following it, that promise was made in vain by Jesus the Son of Mary, when he said, “I will send you (mark I will send you) the Spirit, and he shall lead you into all truth" for they had a light before. But it is evident, that that of was not sufficient, because they must have another sent them by Jesus Christ, and that must be the Spirit.