Benjamin Whichcote
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.Collection: Faith
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.Collection: Enjoy
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.Collection: Inspirational
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.Collection: Wise
A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.Collection: Cost
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.Collection: Wise
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.Collection: Charity
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.Collection: Friends
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.Collection: Flower
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.Collection: Opportunity
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.Collection: Mind
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Temptation
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.Collection: Trust
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.Collection: Prayer
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.Collection: Dangerous
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.Collection: May
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.Collection: Passion
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.Collection: Heaven
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.Collection: Thinking
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.Collection: Men
He that does not repent, sins again.Collection: Doe
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.Collection: God
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.Collection: Christian
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.Collection: Law
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.Collection: Teacher
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.Collection: Thinking
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.Collection: Wise
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.Collection: Hereafter
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?Collection: Men
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.Collection: Lying
That power is in vain which is never in use.Collection: Power
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.Collection: Jealous
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Life
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.Collection: Men
There is no better way to learn than to teach.Collection: Teaching
Believe things, rather than man.Collection: Believe
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.Collection: Political
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.Collection: Reason
Fear is prophetical of evil.Collection: Fear
Christ is God clothed with human nature.Collection: Jesus
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.Collection: Grace
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.Collection: Neighbor
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.Collection: Mind
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.Collection: Humility
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.Collection: Teacher
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.Collection: Religion
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.Collection: Evil
Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.Collection: God