black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

Benjamin Whichcote

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 WHICHCOTE

Acceptance Law Teacher
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Degrees Heaven Religion
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Carrie Idol Men
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Fit Self Thinking
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Firsts Impossible Men
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Good Incarnate Men Soul
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Reform Religion Thinking
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Acknowledge Reason
Believe things, rather than man.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Belief Believe Men
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 WHICHCOTE

Credit Letters Men
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Charity Good More Ourselves
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Deny God Men
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Men Self Selfishness
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Manner Men Mind Wise
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Ends Life Wish

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes