Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEReligion is … being as much like God as man can be.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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