None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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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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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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