Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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