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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
They that are reconciled unto God, in the frame and temper of their minds, that live according to the Law of Heaven (the everlasting and immutable rule of goodness, righteousness and truth) may truly be said to have begun Heaven while they are upon the earth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Wicked men shake off the government of Reason, as if it were tyranny and usurpation.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
He that would have the perfection of pleasure, must be moderate in the use of it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Where there is only a show of religion, there is only an imagination of happiness.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Sin is the failure of a fallible creature; and reversible by repentance.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
There is no natural desire of what is unnatural.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Christ, who was innocent, was dealt withal as if he were faulty; that we, who are faulty, might be dealt withal as if we were innocent.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The mind as a glass, receives all images; and the soul becomes that with which it is in conjunction.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
A benefactor is a representative of God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Understanding should go first and find out the way, then passion should be as wings to carry us on in it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
If God had pardoned Sin without any amends, God would have been thought to countenance Sin: and Man would have thought Sin no great matter.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Human nature is deformed and depraved without religion.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Morality is the congruity and proportion that is between the actions of rational beings, and the objects of those actions.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Natural desires are within bounds; but unnatural lust is infinite.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
No man is to make Religion for himself; but to receive it from God; and the teachers of the Church are not to make Religion for their hearers, but to show it only, as received from God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The Government of Man should be the Monarchy of Reason; it is too often a Democracy of Passions, or an Anarchy of Humours.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Those who are crafty, think the wisdom of God warrants him to deceive; those who are revengeful, think the goodness of God permits him to be cruel; those who are arbitrary, think the sovereignty of God is the account of his actions. Everyone attributes to God, what he finds in himself: but that cannot be a perfection in God, which is a dishonesty in Man.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
God is the creditor of that punishment which is due upon Sin; and He has the right of abating, as well as the right of exacting.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
When a man hath established a Throne of Judgment in his own soul and is able to put a difference between Good and Evil, Right and Wrong: then he must reform himself according to such knowledge and always hold himself to that which his Judgment tells him is Good and Right.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
It is sinful to have enmity against aught but sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
In many cases, it is very hard to fix the bounds of Good and Evil, because these part, as Day and Night, which are separated by Twilight.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Things but half-done, will quickly be undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The more false anyone is in his religion, the more fierce and furious in maintaining it; the more mistaken, the more imposing; the more any man's religion is his own, the more he is concerned for it, but cool and indifferent enough for that which is God's.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The more we look into religion, the more we shall perceive it to be suitable to our nature and conducive to our happiness.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Wickedness disrobes any man of his excellency.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of Truth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Each truth helps on the discovery of another.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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