The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWe are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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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.
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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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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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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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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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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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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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