Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcotewas a British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Benjamin Whichcote quotes about
work devil laziness
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
angel repentance pardon
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
becoming mercy repentance
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.
light darkness mysterious
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
together may reason
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
thinking religion reform
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.
men willpower blind
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
hereafter
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
men idols carrie
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
cost littles good-words
A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
men credit letters
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.
perfection use pleasure
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
thinking self fit
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
men self wonder
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.