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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Benjamin Whichcote

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
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
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
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
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

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