... went to the mother and asked for the definition of sin. The mother gave perhaps the most profound definition of sin; “if anything weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenets of your conscience, obscures ...
... be avoided by the man who desires happiness. Clean and honest conversation, by keeping the conscience at ease, promotes happiness. Lying and wicked talk stuffs our pillows with thorns, and makes life a ...
... “Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short if anything increases the authority and the ...
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, ...
... against each other in front of non-believers (1 Cor. 6:1). He goes on to talk about freedom in Christ, matters of conscience, and our responsibility to maintain peace among fellow Christians, that no one ...
... his master not to touch it. Anytime he steals the meat and eats it, he becomes grief-stricken and his guilty conscience will not even allow him to wiggle his tail to meet his master as he comes home from ...
... a legacy by being committed to doing something about our world. "Some men show courage throughout the whole of their lives. Others sail with the wind until the decisive moment when their conscience and ...
... the fear of premature death etc.
In cases where we succumb to the temptation, we try to clear our conscience with saying such as “after all, the society is not condemning what I did and other people ...
... their conscience, exploitation of another, & other problems associated with this.
5. Prevention of losing control over one’s own body, hence one’s life by allowing another to control you.
6. Prevention ...
... industry. They have so many conflicting messages from those who are either ignorant and/or don’t have an intact conscience. It matters very little as both will have the same outcome to young people.
It ...