Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
