Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things p…

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sle…

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient …

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

- Benjamin Stillingfleet

Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Woul…

- Benjamin Stillingfleet