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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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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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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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