Benjamin Whichcote on repent
Benjamin Whichcote80 quotes“He that does not repent, sins again.”
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote A good man’s life is all of a piece.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote 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.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George EliotGeorge Eliot What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God’s holy presence to fellowship.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The dream is short, repentance long.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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