That power is in vain which is never in use.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEJoy is the life of man’s life.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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