The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhen we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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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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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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