Joy is the life of man’s life.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEReligion is … being as much like God as man can be.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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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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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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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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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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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