Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEntrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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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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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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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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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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