Believe things, rather than man.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWill, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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