Conscience without judgment is superstition.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhere Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
-
-
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
That power is in vain which is never in use.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE -
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE