The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist . . .Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
~ Billy Graham
The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.
Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.
There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!
As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.
From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.
The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.
In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.
True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.
The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.
To be a Christian is not a pious pose. It is not a long list of restrictions. Christianity flings open the windows to the real joy of living. Those who have been truly converted to Jesus Christ know the meaning of abundant living.
In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!
There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!
It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.
God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
We should go to no place that we would not go in His Presence. But He is not with us just to judge or condemn us; He is near to comfort, protect, guide, encourage, strengthen, cleanse, and help.
There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.
Because tragedy happened to you, it gives you a greater sense of oneness with others who experience tragedy. Because we have been comforted through the Word of God, we in turn may be able to comfort others.
When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.
Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.
If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.
The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.
The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.
Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.
Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.
The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.
No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!
The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.
We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world’s ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.
When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.
The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.
In our desire to make Christ known and to increase the influence of the church, we are many times prone to think that Christians and the church can be made popular with the unbelieving world. This is a grave mistake on the part of the church.
It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God’s Word and pray.
The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God—that vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of “God’s household, which is the church of the living God” [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).
God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a “still small voice” that will not let us go until we do what we know is right . . .we must never silence that inner voice—[but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.
Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God’s voice to the inner man.
Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.
God does communicate with those who are willing to obey Him. He penetrates the dark silence with free, life-giving discoveries in nature, the human conscience, Scripture, and the Person of Jesus Christ.
