Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEGood men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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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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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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