Quotes from Benjamin Whichcote

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

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Believe things, rather than man.

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

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Joy is the life of man's life.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

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?

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

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.

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

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.