Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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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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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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