Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEJoy is the life of man’s life.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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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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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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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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