The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
– John Calvin
Related Quotes:
- 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. – Billy Graham
- Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience. – Harper Lee
- The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. – Leo Tolstoy
- Forget the threat of Hell’s infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait – for an eternity – Sharon Kay Penman
- Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in -˜right’ living, verses believing that living is a -˜right. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come. – Billy Graham
- People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. – Ray Bradbury
- Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. – Christopher Marlowe
- Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good. – Shelley Noble
- Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. – Mahavira
- I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. – William Faulkner
- It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. – Calvin Coolidge
- Many are concerned with going to heaven or hell, But fail to realize that you can be living in heaven or hell right here on Earth. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. – John Sloan
- Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer. – Calvin Miller
- [T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell
- To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation – William Shakespeare
- The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. – John Milton
- Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. – John Calvin
- In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. – John Calvin
- The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible. – John Calvin
- When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him – John Calvin
- There is not one blade of gr???, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. – John Calvin
- He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind. – John Calvin
- Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result. – John Calvin
- He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives. – John Calvin
- Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals. – John Calvin
- We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts. – John Calvin
- Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. – John Calvin
- He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. – John Calvin
- We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside. – John Calvin
- The worship of God is-¦the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality. – John Calvin
- Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? – John Calvin
- True knowledge of God is born out of obedience. – John Calvin
- Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. – John Calvin
- The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it. – John Calvin
- Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett