Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAh! 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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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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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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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