He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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 are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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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 not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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