He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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Ah! 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.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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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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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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