Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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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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