Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTERight and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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