Ethics Quote by Susanna Wesley

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in…

— Susanna Wesley

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then…

— Susanna Wesley

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience,…

— Robert Southey

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then…

— Kay Warren

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

— Robert Southey

“Wherever the idea of guilt, the fear of sin prevails, the mind becomes traitor to the body: "I know him not and will have…

— Various

“When tempted to sin, I often repeat to myself two truths: holiness brings happiness, and purity brings power.”

— Sidney Greidanus

“Sin so contaminates every area of our being that deeds done in religious service are tainted with self-love, self-seeking, self-worship...Not only do our evil…

— Dan Phillips

“We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.”

— Charles J. Chaput

“Perhaps that was one of the flaws of the faith: life’s pleasures were all sins, as if the senses were the enemy of the…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

— J. C. Ryle

“sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.”)”

— Jimmy Swaggart