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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Benjamin Whichcote

A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Men Satisfaction Wise
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Able Men Speak Speech
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

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