Fear is prophetical of evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEntrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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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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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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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 most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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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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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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