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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEConscience without judgment is superstition.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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