Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt 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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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