We now pass to the more awful exhibition of a mind worked upon by a guilty conscience.
This is merely a description of what the witness has seen, and it might occur to any person of strong intellectual faculties, disturbed by great cares, without the action of a guilty conscience.
These first actions of hers, as described by the gentlewoman to the doctor, do not necessarily exhibit the working of a guilty conscience.
The meaning is, thou shalt not have rest in the world, but shalt be continually possessed with a guilty conscience, which shall make thy condition restless, and void of comfort.
Note, That it is the design of Satan, and the deceitful heart of man, to labour to quiet a guilty conscience, not by faith in the blood of Christ, but by over much business in the things of this world.
Yea, what a word of worth, and goodness, and blessedness, is it to him that lies continually upon the wrath of a guilty conscience?
Why did I judge of his ability to save me by the voice of my shallow reason, and the voice of a guilty conscience?
He knew he was the party, and having a guilty conscience, he naturally supposed yuh recognized him from the start.
This becomes even plainer in the case of a guilty conscience, where we become aware of the inner condemnation of such acts which realized some of our definite wish impulses.
The neurotic's guilty conscience is just as incomprehensible if traced to real misdeeds.
But I coaxed him to tell me why the woman was so frightened when the man did nothing but say those two words, and he said it was because she had a guilty conscience, for wicked people feared what good and innocent people did not mind at all.
Beautiful question of solicitude for a guilty conscience, that he smiled over grimly as he said it.
I can't yet decide whether my hard work is sheer activity of a guilty conscience, or my laziness is the collapse of a conscience too highly taxed, but the one follows the other as night follows day.
This fear of the vengeance of emancipated slaves arises, doubtless, from a guilty conscience--or a feeling that it is richly deserved.
Whomsoever I address trembles like a criminal, and withdraws into the thickest gloom of night, that fearful refuge of a guilty conscience.
You may think, Perhaps, beneath this seeming fear and caution There lies a guilty conscience?
His every act was eloquent of a guilty conscience.
It looked almost as if he too were troubled by a guilty conscience.
A guilty conscience eased by confession and pardon.
O wash my Soul from every sin, And make my guilty conscience clean; Here on my heart the burden lies, And past offences pain my eyes.
The gentleman was apprised of Lyttleton's vision and predicted death, which, with the thousand pounds depending, must have excited in his mind an exquisite degree of anxiety, and roused a guilty conscience.
O the mire and dirt that a guilty conscience, when it is forced to speak, will cast up and throw out before the judgment-seat.
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