Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA benefactor is a representative of God.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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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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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.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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