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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Benjamin Whichcote

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Darkness Light Mysterious
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Delight Friend Friends True
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
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
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
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

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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