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BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE QUOTES III

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.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Passion ungoverned by Reason is Madness.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

God laid no foundation of wickedness in the principles of His creation; it is an unnatural super-structure of our own, without a foundation.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The noblest spirits are most sensible of the possibility of Error: and the weakest do most hardly lay down an Error.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

A great faction is many persons, yet but one party; and that is but one opinion: such a faction is but one man, in point of judgment. One free-spirited man is, in this particular, equal to a whole faction.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Religion makes us live as those who represent God in the world.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The proud man lives in the paradise of fools; and neither in what he thinks, or does, or looks for, or promises himself, is there anything sincere or true.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

A sinner is an incendiary and sets the world on fire.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

We never do anything so secretly, but that it is in the presence of two witnesses: God, and our own conscience.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

In religious worship, the presence of the mind may compensate for the absence of the body; but the presence of the body cannot compensate for the absence of the mind.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

If it were not for sin, we should converse together as angels do.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

He that wrongs any creature, sins against God, the creator.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

True religion hath done only good in the world; but superstition, which is the counterfeit of religion, hath done the worst and the greatest mischief.

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In all supremacy of power, there is inherent a prerogative to pardon.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

In the lower degree of sin, God is neglected; in the higher degree of sin, God is affronted.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Fear is prophetical of evil.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Men are not so weak, save only in Religion, to think anyone in earnest if he do no more than talk.

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God would never have made Man to that height and excellence of nature if he had deigned him only to worldly drudgery and employment here below.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The spirit of religion is a reconciling spirit.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The more you are offended at your evil thoughts, the less they are yours.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

If Self be predominant, the man is unsociable.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Where there is most of God, there is least of self.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Darkness spoils modesty: no man blushes in the dark.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The more we use wisdom and virtue, the more they are our own, and the more we have of them.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

A proud man hath no God, for he hath put God down and set himself up.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

That power is in vain which is never in use.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The malignity of sin does, in time, vitiate the principles of Nature; and the sinner comes to live entirely by sense and passion, who has been wont to put a violence upon judgment, reason, and conscience.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

When the sinner hath used his liberty to repent, and God hath used his prerogative to pardon, the sin which hath been, is as if it had not been.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

No man is convinced of truth by another's falling into passion, but rather suspects error and design.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The best discharge of government is government of our selves, and there we must begin.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

None so empty as those who are full of themselves.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Virtue is in our power, though praise be not: we may deserve honour, though we cannot command it.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

We must not put Truth into the place of a means, but into the place of an end.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

The nearer we approach to the God of Truth, the farther we are from the danger of Error.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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