Conscience

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

CONSCIENCE.—A tender conscience is like the apple of a man's eye; the least dust that gathers in it affects it. There is no surer and better way to know whether our consciences are dead and stupid than to observe what impressions small sins make upon us. If we are not very careful to avoid all appearance of evil, and to shun whatever looks like sin; if we are not so much troubled at the rising up of sinful desires in us as we have been formerly, we may then conclude that our hearts are hardened, and our consciences are stupefying; for a tender conscience will no more allow of small sins than of great ones.