Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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.
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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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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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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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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.
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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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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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