Joseph Addison Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

  Joseph Addison

  Health, Serenity, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.253

• Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Filled Up, Plot

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.179

• In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth of it, as a mathematical demonstration, before I would venture to act upon it or make it a part of my religion.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Would Be, Rising

  Joseph Addison (1812). “The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment”, p.169

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