Benjamin Whichcote

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

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.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

He that does not repent, sins again.

Sin is the failure of a fallible creature, and reversible by repentance.

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

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death but at the moment of conversion.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

In many cases it is very hard to fix the bounds of Good and Evil because these part as Day and Night which are separated by Twilight.

The more mysterious the more imperfect that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

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

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

If it were not for sin, we should converse together as angels do.