Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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