The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEConscience is … the God dwelling in us.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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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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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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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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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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