Benjamin Stillingfleet

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Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Collection: Prayer
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Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
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Collection: Art
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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.
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Collection: Prayer
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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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Collection: Philosopher
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Error is but the shadow of the truth.
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Collection: Errors
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See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Collection: Toil
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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
Collection: Lying
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Peace and wickedness are far asunder.
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Collection: Wickedness