Judges are compelled to yield to their authority, and do violence to their own consciences whilst they help to lay the healing unction to those of their lawgivers.
Such is the anomalous position in which the native inhabitants are placed through the tender consciences of our rulers at home.
It was well that there were other Frenchmen living, of whose consciences the Court had not the keeping, and who were able on emergencies to do what was right without consulting it.
Superstition, folly, and cunning will go on to the end of time, spinning their poison webs around the consciences of mankind.
The account of the London Carthusians is indeed known to us, because they chose to die rather than yield submission where their consciences forbade them; and their isolated heroism has served to distinguish their memories.
Miserable monks have ruled all, entangling men's consciences for their own benefit.
He died indeed, bearing all that terror with which men's consciences have invested death.
Let us be thankful if our consciencesspeak to us more loudly than they used to do.
The nearer we get to Jesus Christ, the more will our consciences be enlightened as to the particulars in which we are still distant from Him.
It is not for the want of knowing, that we go wrong, as our consciences tell us; but it is for want of something that can conquer the evil tendencies within, and lift off the burden of a sinful past which weighs on us.
If circumstances threaten, if men array themselves against us, if our own evil hearts rise up in rebellion, if our passions disturb us, if our consciences accuse: for all these Christ brings tranquillity and calm.
Our consciencesshould become more and more sensitive: we should always be advancing in our discovery of our own evils, and be more conscious of our sins, the fewer we have of them.
The agitation of minds and consciences became general; men and women had trances, prayed in public, screamed, had visions, and fell into cataleptic fits.
Indeed this is too much known by woeful and daily experience; sometimes when we go to visit them that are sick in the towns and places where we live, O how senseless, how seared in their consciences are they!
If he will not, God will, conscience will: and that not thine own only, but the consciences of all those that have seen the way, and that have known the truth of the condition of such a one.
With such burning words, we need no messenger from the invisible world to alarm the consciences of sinners.
Thus the conservative surgeon and the radical or extirpatory surgeon may both be right as far as the ultimate cure is concerned; so that their consciences do not help them out of their differences.
What do we, my dear hearers, when borne away by the immoderate desires of our hearts to a sin against which our consciences protest?
Do not some of your consciences by this time smite you, and say, I am the man that have made light of my salvation?
By accusing ourselves we shall make the devil's malice useless, and our own consciences clear, and be reconciled to the Judge by the severities of an early repentance, and then we need to fear no accusers.
The last use shall be a use of comfort to all the saints and people of God, whose consciences can witness that they have labored to walk in the uprightness of their heart as Abraham did.
Their consciences were quickened by his graphic portrayal of their desires for righteousness and decency and fair opportunity.
This is not my doing," said Luther, as he received them; "but would to God that I could thus rescue all captive consciences and empty all the cloisters!
The friars were astonished; their consciences told them that Gabriel's words were but too true, that a monkish life was not in conformity with the will of God, and that no one could dispose of their persons better than themselves.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Men ought to oppose themselves boldly to Authority; that is, to Queen Elizabeth, if urged further than their consciences can bear.
Dark pages of Scottish history might never have been written: the consciences of men might have been touched, and the cruelties of the religious conflict might have been abated.
To them liberty of conscience from the first meant liberty to control the consciences and destroy the religion of all who differed from them.
Mary said that her conscience was otherwise minded, but Knox knew that all consciences of "man or angel" were wrong which did not agree with his own.
Luther's pastoral concern for his people made it necessary for him to speak on this subject in order to quiet the consciences both embittered and distressed by the wanton and unjust use of the power of excommunication.
The Scriptures set the consciences of men free, and forbid that they be taken captive with the doctrines of men.
Thank God that there were some sensitive consciences in an almost conscienceless age!
It is very necessary here that your hearts and consciences be well instructed, so that you distinguish well between the outward reception and the inner and spiritual reception.
For if that which God has decreed comes to an end and shall no longer bind the consciences of men, how much more shall men neither decree nor keep anything that would bind the conscience?
Thus they go to the sacrament with such consciences that they become "irregular"[179] and all sorts of other terrible things.
It is easy for unbelievers to call the word of God a record of fabulous wonders, but that record lives and will live, and its words assert their divinity by touching and burning the consciences of men as if they were tongues of fire.
Your consciences have heard that voice and echoed its condemnation.
Our consciences and our reason alike require us to believe in the supremacy of goodness.
You desire to escape that divine displeasure; you desire to have the fires of guilt that burn in your consciences quenched.
But remember that God has not left the world in these later ages without the testimony of wrathful judgments which ought to startle and alarm the consciences of the wicked like the fires of Sodom.
This record of divine wrath against evil-doers has startled the consciences of wicked men, and will continue to startle them so long as the ungodly live upon the earth.
No man must be allowed to speak the Unutterable Words, which, like the handwriting on the wall in the banquetting hall of Belshazzar, seemed ever to be appearing before the affrighted consciences of Ireland's rulers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consciences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
