John Tillotson Quotes

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• Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often…
• In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
• Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
• Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and…
• Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
• How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would…
• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness…
• There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
• For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill…
• For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and…
• He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.
• They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
• If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
• To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
• Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
• There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other…
• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a…
• Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of…

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