"There may be some so very Ignorant, that……" — Cotton Mather
"There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray."
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Cotton Mather
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17 Quotes by Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather has 17 quotes on this site.
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I…
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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
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Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
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That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the…
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments…
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A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
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I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of…
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Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures.…
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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More Ignorant Quotes
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
— Abu Bakr
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
— John Adams
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
— Mary J. Blige
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