Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhen we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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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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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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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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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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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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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 neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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