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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.

Benjamin Whichcote

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
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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Hypocrisy Men Soul
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
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
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
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 State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
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
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

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