The temptation was warring with his conscience.
What does he have to cleanse the conscience of?
He has been stalked by the fear and the condemnation of his conscience.
The inner jerk is the anti-conscience of your thought process.
For if they did, the answer would be "no", and perhaps their conscience will finally force them to act.
Milton's arguing that there's no authority that can rightfully exist outside of the conscience of the individual.
But they will most likely express their conscience in their consumerism, relieved to be helping someone somewhere by collecting the hand-carved artifacts of distant cultures.
There are some things that no one really knows, no one knows except you, but you have to be able to live on your own, so you'd better have a clear conscience. Because a clear conscience can bring self-confidence, and self-confidence will make your life easier.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And neither should our conscience.
To be honest, what I've seen offends my Presbyterian conscience .
They have qualms of conscience and that is the beginning of the end.
I think these children have betrayed their own conscience and therefore may subject themselves to social contempt and criticism.
How many times, after an equivoque, after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "a trip!"
Much of this is speculative, but I do believe in a "natural morality" which is experienced as "conscience," and which is universal in "normal" humans.
I must tell you all: this many a day all things have been taken away from me but that which I call more dear to me than my life: my conscience and my honour.
Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience,
Pat Buchanan, a speechwriter who considered himself Nixon's conservative conscience, was morose.
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
His remedies - that businesses look beyond immediate shareholder return and that the rich heed "the still, small voice of conscience" and give something back - are fine for those disposed to listen.
The crime lies heavily on his conscience.
In such a world, there is no room for a social conscience.
Money and status of conscience tend to degenerate, and if we do not even have to give up affection, then we really have nothing.
Cold that bites the skin; a conscience bitten by remorse.
So the Bible includes norms for human behavior set by the divine will, even though enforcement has to be left to the individual conscience.
But he says he is struggling with his conscience.
"I do not believe anyone with a shred of conscience can reject our application for a full membership of the United Nations and our admission as a full-member state," he said.
The law may instruct and exhort , but it has no place in the conscience before God's tribunal.
But like most people of conscience, I was sickened and horrified to see the recent video taken by animal rights activists of baby chicks being ground alive at an egg hatchery.
