None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTETruth 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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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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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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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