Benjamin Stillingfleet famous quotes

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

#Prayer #Astrology #Reason
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
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
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
Error is but the shadow of the truth.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet

#Errors #Shadow
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 #Moss
See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet

#Toil #Lovers #Courtship
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
Peace and wickedness are far asunder.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet

#Wickedness
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 #Stories

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