Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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 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 are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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