What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWe never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Every 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?
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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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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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