None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEVirtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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