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

Benjamin Whichcote

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
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
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Democracy Men Passion
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
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
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
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

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

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