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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

Benjamin Whichcote

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 is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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
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
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
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
A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
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
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Learning Teaching Way

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