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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

Benjamin Whichcote

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Approach Flower Soul Sun
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
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
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Delight Friend Friends True
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self

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