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He that does not repent, sins again.

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
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God 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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
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
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
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
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
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 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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Approach Flower Soul Sun

He that does not repent, sins again.

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