Notes from the book “One Hundred Bible Lessons” by Alban Douglas.

WHAT IS CONSCIENCE?

Have you ever asked that questions?

“Conscience is a thinking man’s filter.” – The Readers’ Digest, November 1960

“It is an inward knowledge or consciousness; the faculty that passes judgment on the moral quality of actions or of individuals.” – The Oxford Dictionary

“The moral sense of consciousness within oneself that determines whether an action is right or wrong, good or bad.” – The Winston Dictionary

“It is grandmother!!!” – A little girl

“One can have peace with God without a good conscience but his experience would not be a happy one.” – Dr. Hallesby

“Frustrated about the rules he had to follow, a boy asked his father, ‘How soon will I be old enough to do as I please?’ ‘I don’t know, son, nobody has lived that long yet,’ replied his Dad.” – Coffee News, Vol 151:2

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm,” says Henry David Thoreau. And in the local paper I am reading, “The Far North was still showing little enthusiasm for the local body elections as of last week. By Friday afternoon the return rate had reached 26.8 per cent, …” (The Northland Age, Tuesay, October 8, 2013)

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS