We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEvery profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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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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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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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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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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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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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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