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HENRY, Philip Quotes

(1631-1696) English nonconformist divine

Change

Remember the wheel of Providence is always in motion; and the spoke that is uppermost will be under; and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.

Conversion

We are born with our backs upon God and heaven, and our faces upon sin and hell, till grace comes, and that converts—turns us.

Holiness

Holiness is the symmetry of the soul.

Holiness in us, is the copy or transcript of the holiness that is in Christ.—As the wax hath line for line from the seal, and the child feature for feature from the father, so is holiness in us from him.

Meditation

It is easier to go six miles to hear a sermon, than to spend one quarter of an hour in meditating on it when I come home.

Mercy

If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone.

Science

The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant in religion.

Sin

Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces another.—When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off.

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