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Quotes from Benjamin Stillingfleet

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
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
~ Benjamin Stillingfleet
Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
~ Benjamin Stillingfleet
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.
~ Benjamin Stillingfleet
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
~ Benjamin Stillingfleet
Error is but the shadow of the truth.
~ Benjamin Stillingfleet