Top 80 Benjamin Whichcote Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no better way to learn than to teach.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

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

— Benjamin Whichcote

3. “A benefactor is a representative of God.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

4. “Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.”

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5. “The judge is nothing but the law speaking.”

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6. “Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

7. “Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.”

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8. “That power is in vain which is never in use.”

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9. “Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

10. “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.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

11. “Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

12. “A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

13. “Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.”

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14. “Conscience without judgment is superstition.”

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15. “None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

16. “Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

17. “The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

18. “Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

19. “The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.”

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20. “When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

21. “Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

22. “None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

23. “The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

24. “All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.”

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25. “It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

26. “The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

27. “If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

28. “The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.”

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29. “Christ is God clothed with human nature.”

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30. “Joy is the life of man’s life.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

31. “A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

32. “We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.”

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33. “Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.”

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34. “The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light – so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.”

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35. “A good man’s life is all of a piece.”

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36. “An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.”

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37. “He that does not repent, sins again.”

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

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39. “Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.”

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40. “Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

41. “No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.”

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42. “God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

43. “He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.”

— Benjamin Whichcote

44. “Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good – a mere stranger will do no harm.”

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45. “Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.”

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46. “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

47. “Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.”

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

— Benjamin Whichcote