It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEJoy is the life of man’s life.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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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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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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