Repeated Falsehood and the Depraved Conscience

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 14, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 19.

Repeated Falsehood and the Depraved Conscience

It is a proverbial remark, and a just one, that “a liar will sometimes repeat the same falsehood so often that he will come to believe it himself.” He did not originally say it because he believed it, but by saying it he brought himself to believe it. The like takes place with many other sins besides lying; and a man will often succeed in thus convincing, not only himself, but others, of his “sincerity.” If you begin by neglecting the warnings of conscience, and acting against your own moral judgment, that judgment will in time become depraved and you will act on wrong principles.—Archbishop Whately.