When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEConscience without judgment is superstition.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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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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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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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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