Benjamin Whichcote

“To be ignorant of ourselves, is the greatest of all ignorance.”

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

“Man is not at all settled or confirmed in his religion, until his religion is the self-same with his reason.”

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

“If you would be religious, be rational in your religion.”

“Truth is the self-evidence of itself.”

“That which is not truly within a man's power, is not his duty to do.”

“Where the doctrine is right, the life cannot be wrong.”

“The desire of fame is the last infirmity of a noble mind.”

“Sin is the abuse, and not the use of the creature.”

“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.”

“He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mistakes.”

“Religion is the introduction of a divine life into the soul of man.”

“None are so empty, as those who are full of themselves.”

“Heaven is first a temper and then a place.”