Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEConscience without judgment is superstition.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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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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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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