He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThere is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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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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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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