Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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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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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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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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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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