Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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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.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about 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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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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