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

Benjamin Whichcote

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
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
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye 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
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder

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

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