Birth: 1609 Death: 1683
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..
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them..
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody..
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge..
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven..
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason..
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion..
A good man's life is all of a piece..
That power is in vain which is never in use..
Conscience without judgment is superstition..
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken..
A benefactor is a representative of God..
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself..
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it..
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of thin….
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times..
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities..
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it..
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?.
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 re….
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 assign….