The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEvery 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?
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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