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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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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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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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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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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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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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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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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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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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