Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEChrist is God clothed with human nature.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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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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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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