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.
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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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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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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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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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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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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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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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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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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