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Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Where Evil is returned for Evil, the first offender thinks himself excused, because the other is as faulty as he.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great dearl harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
If a man be once out of the use of Reason, there are no bounds to Unreasonableness.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
God made man Intelligent and Voluntary, and the Law of his Nature, and the Reason of his Mind, God intended for the great Rule of his Life; to take place in all particulars, where God did not think good farther to profess his Will, and declare his Pleasure.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Nothing can give peace to him who is at enmity with his own reason.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Let not any one use that severity in the case of another, which his own case will not bear: For a man may condemn Himself in the person of another.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
By these two Things Religion is recommended to us, above all other things whatsoever: 1. By the Satisfaction we thereby enjoy in Life; and 2. By the Expectation we have thereby at Death.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The worst of evil befalling sinners is not an infliction from without, but arises out of the guilt of conscience within.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
What we attribute to God as his excellency and perfection, that we should propose to ourselves as matter of practice and imitation.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Men have an itch rather to make Religion than to use it: but we are to use our Religion, not to make it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The unrighteous are condemned by themselves before they are condemned by God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Joy and grief are things of great hazard and danger in the life of man: The one breaks the heart; the other intoxicates the head.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Serenity of mind and calmness of thought are a better enjoyment than anything without us.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves: no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
To believe there is a God is to believe the existence of all possible Good and Perfection in the Universe: And it is to be resolved upon this--that things either are, or finally shall be, as they should be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Sinners are made up of contradictions: contradictions to truth and reason, to God, to themselves, and to one another.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
He that gives Reason for what he saith, has done what is fit to be done; and the most that can be done: He, that gives not Reason, speaks nothing, though he saith never so much.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The soul does contemplate and worship God; when it is not disturbed by the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
We worship God best when we resemble him most.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Reason is the Divine Governor of Man's life; it is the very Voice of God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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