Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTETruth 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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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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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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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