Benjamin Stillingfleet Quotes

• 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
  Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
  Which Nature's self would rue.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Self, Important, Rue

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

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Prayer, Astrology, Reason

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

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Art, Honesty, Helping

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• 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 prayed for.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Philosopher, Common, Idolatry

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• Error is but the shadow of the truth.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Errors, Shadow

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• See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Toil, Lovers, Courtship

  Benjamin Stillingfleet (1811). “Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet: Several of which Have Never Before Been Published ...”

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• 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

  Lying, Men, Atheism

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• Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Wickedness

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• 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 sleep, and leave applause to fools.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Wise, Sleep, Fool

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