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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThere is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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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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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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