Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
A British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists.
(1609 - 1683)
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
[Modesty]
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Sins of the mind have less infamy than those of the body, but not less malignity.
[Sin]
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
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