Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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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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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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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 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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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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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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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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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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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