Approach Quote by Benjamin Whichcote

“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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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

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Christ is God clothed with human nature.

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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

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A benefactor is a representative of God.

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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

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