Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Stillingfleet

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702–1771) was an English botanist, polymath, and author.

English - Author | 1702 - December 15, 1771

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Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

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Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.

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Error is but the shadow of the truth.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

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