--- title: "1 Ignorance Mother Quotes By Cotton Mather" description: "1 Ignorance Mother quotes by Cotton Mather. Plus more from Cotton Mather and more Ignorance Mother sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/cotton-mather-22749_devotion_ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion_2907331.jpg" --- > [Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion-but-of-heresy/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/cotton-mather-22749_devotion_ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion_2907331.jpg) ## More by Cotton Mather > [What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/what-must-i-do-to-be-saved-it-is-impossible-to-ask-a-more-weighty/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/is-this-dying-is-this-all-is-this-what-i-feared-when-i-prayed-against/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/that-there-is-a-devil-is-a-thing-doubted-by-none-but-such-as-are/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/if-we-admit-instrumental-musick-in-the-worship-of-god-how-can-we/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/wilderness-is-a-temporary-condition-through-which-we-are-passing-to/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/the-word-of-god-must-be-read-and-heard-with-diligence-that-so-you-may/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/you-are-young-and-have-the-world-before-you-stoop-as-you-go-through/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/be-not-so-set-upon-poetry-as-to-be-always-poring-on-the-passionate/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/ah-destructive-ignorance-what-shall-be-done-to-chase-thee-out-of-the/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [“The Jews have a saying worth remembering: "Whoever doesn't teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief." As soon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/the-jews-have-a-saying-worth-remembering-whoever-doesn-t-teach-his/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/that-there-is-a-devil-is-a-thing-doubted-by-none-but-such-as-are-2/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/chrysostom-i-remember-mentions-a-twofold-book-of-god-the-book-of-the/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/charity-is-kind-it-is-not-easily-provok-d-it-thinks-no-evil-it/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/there-may-be-some-so-very-ignorant-that-they-know-not-how-to-pray/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) > [“The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil's Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/the-new-englanders-are-a-people-of-god-settled-in-those-which-were/) [Cotton Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cotton-mather/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ignorance-mother/cotton-mather/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ignorance Mother Quotes By Cotton Mather", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cotton Mather" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cotton-mather/ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion-but-of-heresy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/cotton-mather-22749_devotion_ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion_2907331.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/cotton-mather-22749_devotion_ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion_2907331.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/cotton-mather-22749_devotion_ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion_2907331.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.” — Cotton Mather", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ignorance-mother/cotton-mather/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ignorance-mother/cotton-mather/", "name": "Ignorance Mother Quotes by Cotton Mather", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ignorance-mother/cotton-mather/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/cotton-mather-22749_devotion_ignorance-is-the-mother-not-of-devotion_2907331.jpg" }, "description": "1 Ignorance Mother quotes by Cotton Mather. 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