Quotes of Benjamin Whichcote - somelinesforyou

“ None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ He that is dishonest, trusts nobody. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ The mind as a glass, receives all images; and the soul becomes that with which it is in conjunction. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ 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

“ None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ 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. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ 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

“ He that is dishonest, trusts nobody. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ 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

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

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ He that is dishonest, trusts nobody. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Man parts with his freedom and enslaves himself when he subjects himself to that which is not sovereign in him, as Reason is. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

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

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ He that is dishonest, trusts nobody. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Human nature is deformed and depraved without religion. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

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

- Benjamin Whichcote

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

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ He that would have the perfection of pleasure, must be moderate in the use of it. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

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

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ 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
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