A good man’s life is all of a piece.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEDid 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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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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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