...enforce practice, the object is good, but it is not the right way of accomplishing it. We all know what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, and the best way of making this knowledge practical is not to talk too much about it, but to set a good...

...be compelled to decide for ourselves, and perhaps to guide and rule others, we must strive to learn what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, in order that we may be able rightly to guide ourselves and others. Effort to learn — application...

...given to our souls that which we call conscience, which shows us what is right and what is wrong ; what we ought to do and what we ought not to do. But the apostle speaks in our text of " an evil conscie'nce." This means, a conscience that has been...

...beautiful and ugly, and becoming and unbecoming, and happiness and misfortune, and proper and improper, and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, who ever came into the world without having an innate idea of them ? Wherefore we all use these names,...

...Nothing is easier than a man sitting by his fireside at home and drawing out problems to inform us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do ; but I should like to put these clever men on the bridge of a steamer a dark winter's night with blinding...

...that trespassing; it is going where they have no business to go. That is what sin is. God has told us what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. He has put a fence around us and He says, " You keep inside of this fence; all outside is Satan's world....

...words of the command ; the spirit or will reaches to thoughts and words as well as deeds. They tell us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do. What we ought to do are virtues, what we ought not to do are sins. We sin when we do wrong, when we...

...Ghost." He has been with us ever since ; He helps us to pray-to God ; He speaks in our hearts to tell us what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do ; and He makes us strong to leave off what is wrong, and to do what is right. He will lead us on in the way...

...right, and which condemns us when we do wrong, is conscience. CONSCIENCE is very faithful ; it tells us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do. There are several ways in which conscience is faithful to us. I. Conscience warns us, before we begin...

...our offices and on our streets, and there makes known in the actual circumstances of our daily life what we ought to do and what we ought not to do — that is the wonder of his revelation. Therefore it is no figure of speech, it is no mere ecstasy...