Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Whichcote
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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.
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
Joy is the life of man's life.
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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.
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
He that does not repent, sins again.
Believe things, rather than man.
Fear is prophetical of evil.
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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.
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.
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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.
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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