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Inspirational Quotations  A-C
Dear Reader,
 
For over two decades I have collected quotes from books and magazines I’ve read as well as from internet searches when researching certain topics or themes.  This collection is made to be added to as I continue to collect and by you also if you have quotes you would like us to add to this working compilation.  Simply add them as a comment and once approved we will join them to the collection. 
            Three disclaimers:  1.  Oswald Chambers is my all-time hero as a writer-speaker and therefore you will find that by far he is the most quoted author/speaker.  If you have never heard of him, I highly recommend My Utmost For His Highest.   2.  This collection is heavily tilted towards ministry—if you are in ministry and love speaking and writing you will get the most out of this.  Regardless, there is much for anyone.  3.  Do not assume quotations reflect my viewpoint. I’ve included a vast array of thoughts and opinions not because I agree with them but because they are thought-provoking.  The beauty of language is often found in the formatting and word selection!  
            Finally, this collection is offered free.  If you find it to be useful and you frequently hunt for quotes for speaking or writing here, please consider donating to First Cause which you can do right on this website.  Your gift helps us build better speakers and writers globally!    Enjoy!
 
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5/8/2019 0 Comments

Conscience

​A bad conscience is a snake in one’s heart.--Proverbs and Wise Sayings Paul Vithayathil
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My conscience is held captive by the Word of God and to act against conscience is neither right nor safe.—Martin Luther
God always educates us down to the scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the tiniest whisper of the Spirit that I know what I should do? . . . He does not come with a voice like thunder; His voice is so gentle that it is easy to ignore it.  The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to God on the inside.--Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest

Happy is he who putteth away from him whatsoever may stain or burden his conscience.—Thomas A Kempis in The Imitation of Christ

The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man.—Thomas A Kempis in The Imitation of Christ

Nothing can take off conscience from accusing but that which takes off God from threatening.  Conscience is God’s sergeant he employs to arrest the sinner.—William Gurnall in The Christian in Complete Armour

Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know, and tells me what the highest I know demands that I do.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest

If I am in the habit of steadily facing myself with God, my conscience will always introduce God’s perfect law and indicate what I should do.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest

There is no debate possible when conscience speaks.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest

The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to God on the inside. When there is any debate, quit. “Why shouldn’t I do this?” You are on the wrong track. There is no debate possible when conscience speaks.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest

Conscience is the innate law in human nature whereby man knows he is known.  Conscience is that faculty in me which fixes on what I regard as the highest; consequently conscience records differently in different people.  I may be a Christian and a conscientious man, or I may be an atheist and a conscientious man.  So it never can be true to call conscience the voice of God; if it were, it would be the most contradictory voice man ever heard.  Conscience is best thought of as the eye of the soul recording what it looks at; it will always record exactly what it is turned toward.—Oswald Chambers in The Shadow of an Agony

When a man gets rightly adjusted to God his conscience staggers him, and his reason condemns him from all standpoints.—Oswald Chambers in The Shadow of an Agony

Conscience is the standard for men and women to be judged by until they have been brought into contact with the Lord Jesus Christ.—Oswald Chambers in The Shadow of an Agony    The conscience formed in us by the Holy Spirit makes us amazingly sensitive to the things that tell against the honour of God.—Oswald Chambers in The Philosophy of Sin

Conscience is the eye of the soul, which looks out on what it is taught is God, and how conscience records depends entirely upon what light is thrown upon God.—Oswald Chambers in The Philosophy of Sin

Conscience is the faculty of the spirit that fits itself on to the highest a person knows, whether the person is an agnostic or a Christian; everyone has a conscience, although everyone does not know God.—Oswald Chambers in Grow Up Into Him 

Bad people can be perfectly happy in their badness. That is what a seared conscience means.—Oswald Chambers in Grow Up Into Him 

Conscience simply means that power in me that affiliates itself with the highest I know; if I do not know Jesus, then my conscience will not be loyal to God as revealed in Him.—Oswald Chambers in The Place of Help 

When conscience has been enlightened by the Son of God being formed in me, I have to make an effort to keep my conscience so sensitive that I obey that which I perceive to be God’s will. I have to be so keen in the scent of the Lord, so sensitive to the tiniest touch of His Spirit, that I know what I should do.—Oswald Chambers in Our Brilliant Heritage

The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive is the continual habit of seeing that I am open to God within. Whenever there is debate, quit. “Why shouldn’t I do this?” You are on the wrong track. When conscience speaks there must be no debate whatever. In a crisis human nature is put on the strain, and we usually know what to do; but the sensitive conscience of the Christian is realised in the ordinary things of life, the humdrum things. We are apt to think of conscience only in connection with something outrageous. The sensitiveness of conscience is maintained by the habit of always being open towards God.—Oswald Chambers in Our Brilliant Heritage

Can God readjust a seared conscience and make it sensitive again? He can, and it is done by the vicarious Atonement of our Lord. “How much more shall the blood of Christ . . . purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14).—Oswald Chambers in Our Brilliant Heritage

A clear conscience laughs at false accusation.--Proverbs and Wise Sayings Paul Vithayathil

The natural conscience can never replace the supernatural, but it can never be detached from it.—P.T. Forsyth in The Christian Ethic of War

The problem is that subjective “peace” can be nothing more than the chloroforming of the conscience.  Give your conscience a hard time long enough, say no to your conscience long enough, tell it “phooey” long enough, and in the end your conscience will tell you to go ahead and live as you please.—Stuart Briscoein Spiritual Stamina

We always believed the softest pillow is a clear conscience.—Narayana Murthy
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Keep conscience clear, then never fear.—Benjamin Franklin

All the worldly goods which I so carefully gathered, would I now give for a good conscience, which I so carelessly neglected.—Lewis Bayly in The Practice of Piety

A clear conscious is never based upon our attainment; it can only be based on the work of the Lord Jesus in the shedding of His blood.—Watchman Nee in The normal Christian Life
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