None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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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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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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