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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

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
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
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
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Men Satisfaction Wise
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Becoming Mercy Submission
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
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
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness

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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