Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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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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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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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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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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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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