Assertion: conscience | /r/CapableOf | become seared
Facets:
value: with a hot iron
type: MANNER
value: by thousands of nameless little dishonesties
type: OTHER
value: deeply
type: DEGREE
value: putting upon facts
type: OTHER
value: by exaggeration
type: CAUSE
value: in an awful and alarming manner
type: MANNER
value: by any insincerity
type: CAUSE
value: directly
type: MANNER
value: especially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: When a person’s conscience is corrupted over time, it can become seared.
text: Whether it is regarded in this light or not, it is certain that it becomes seared when the will opposes itself and continues opposed to the decisions of the reason.
text: 2. Especially does the conscience become seared, when the will persists in courses directly denounced or condemned by the conscience.
text: If you persist in this violation your conscience will become seared with a hot iron.
text: Conscience becomes seared by diverting the attention of the mind from the moral character of your own actions.
text: If you suffer yourself to pass along without attending to the moral quality of your actions, your conscience will soon become seared with a hot iron.
text: Whenever conscience has called your attention to the sinfulness of any act or course of action and you still persist in it, this is a presumptuous sin, and such a course will soon cause your conscience to become seared with a hot iron.
text: In speaking on the subject of meats offered to idols, the Apostle says "he that doubteth is damned (or condemned) if he eat," manifestly recognizing the principle that whatever is of doubtful lawfulness, is to be omitted on pain of condemnation, and if persisted in, the conscience will soon become seared.
text: Thus many persons indulge in things, the lawfulness of which they at first doubt; but directly their conscience becomes so seared that they no longer think with any degree of uneasiness whether it is doubtful or not, and they come to have no doubts about it, simply because their conscience has become seared with a hot iron.
text: By hypocritical professions conscience becomes seared--by insincere professions of friendship, or by any insincerity whatever, the conscience will soon become so seared that it can be practiced without remorse.
text: When persons allow themselves to eat too much, at improper seasons, and improper kinds of food, merely to gratify their appetites, their conscience will soon become so seared, that they can indulge in such things without compunction.
text: By indulging evil habits of any kind, using tobacco in any form, or intoxicating drinks, indulging in solitary sins or secret wickedness of any kind, the conscience becomes seared in an awful and alarming manner.
text: By watching for the halting of others, the conscience becomes seared.
text: The conscience soon becomes so seared that we can indulge in the same things ourselves with very little compunction.
text: If they suffer their religious exercises to become professional rather than strictly devotional, if they suffer themselves to pray and preach and exhort because it is their business, when their hearts are not deeply imbued with the spirit of devotion, then conscience soon becomes so seared that they are ripe for ecclesiastical denunciation, excision, opposition to revivals, and almost every species of reform.
text: And what is worse than all, the conscience becomes so seared, that for these things they will not suffer reproof if faithfully administered and with the utmost kindness, without manifesting great indignation and perhaps a spirit of revenge.
text: If in any thing therefore you neglect reformation, if you do not extend it universally over the whole field of moral obligation, your conscience will soon become seared with a hot iron.
text: Why it is as certain as that your soul lives, if you do these things your conscience will become seared with a hot iron.
text: By exaggeration, or putting a false coloring upon facts related by you, or a hypocritical covering up of the real truth, where truth ought to be known, conscience becomes seared.
text: By dishonesty in small matters, taking trifling advantage in weights and measures, little negligences in the transaction of business for others, coming late to labor, squandering scraps of time, by standing still or other inattention to business when in the employment of others, and by thousands of nameless little dishonesties, the conscience becomes deeply and ruinously seared.