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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThose that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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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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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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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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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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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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