Believe things, rather than man.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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