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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.

Benjamin Whichcote

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Atheism Atheist Thinking
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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Reform Religion Thinking
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
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.
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Ends Life Wish
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
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
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking

Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.

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