Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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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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