John Tillotson Quotes

• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

  John Tillotson

  Ignorance, Two, Ruins

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• We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

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  May, Causes, Christ

  John Tillotson, Ralph Barker (1700). “Arch-Bishop Tillotson's: Several Discourfes”, p.96

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• Una buena palabra es una obligación fácil; pero no hablar mal sólo requiere nuestro silencio, que no nos cuesta nada.

  John Tillotson

  Relationship, People, Silence

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.195

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• Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

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  Inspirational, Practice, Self Improvement

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• When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

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  Action, Easy, Habit

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• Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

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  Real, Blessing, Opportunity

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.673

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• Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

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  Doe, Belief, Opinion

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.270

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• Fill each day with light and heart.

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  Heart, Light, Each Day

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• Integrity gains strength by use.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Use

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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• If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

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  Real, People, Heaven

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• Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.

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  Christian, Temptation

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• In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

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  Heart, Expectations, Desire

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.270

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• A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

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  Men, Littles, Satire

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.185

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• They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

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  Power, Liberty, Highest

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• 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 that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

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  Happiness, Pain, Men

  John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.69

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• Sinceridad es hablar como pensamos, hacer lo que pretendemos y profesamos, cumplir y hacer realidad lo que prometemos, y ser realmente lo que parecemos y aparentamos ser.

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  Thinking, Promise, Speak

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• Que nadie os engañe con vanas palabras o con vanas esperanzas o con falsas nociones de un ligero y repentino arrepentimiento. Como si el cielo fuera un hospital fundado a propósito para recibir a todos los enfermos y mutilados que, cuando ya no pueden vivir para las concupiscencias de la carne y los placeres pecaminosos de este mundo, no pueden sino presentar una petición fría y formal para ser admitidos allí. No, no, tan cierto como que Dios es verdadero, nunca verán el Reino de Dios quienes, en lugar de buscarlo en primer lugar, hacen de él su último refugio y retiro.

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  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

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  Happiness, Pain, Anxiety

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.26

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• When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

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  Men, Atheism, Should

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.35

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• The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

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  Men, Riches, Miserable

  John Tillotson (1699). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions : Together with the Rule of Faith : Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself and Now Collected Into One Volume : to which is Added, an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters”, p.338

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• Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.

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  Wise, Forever, Care

  "Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers".

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

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  Journey, Tasks, World

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• La verdad es siempre coherente consigo misma, y no necesita nada que la ayude. Está siempre a mano, y se sienta en nuestros labios, y está lista para caerse antes de que nos demos cuenta; mientras que una mentira es problemática, y pone la invención de un hombre en el potro; y un truco necesita muchos más para hacerlo bueno.

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  Verdad, Mentira, Hombres

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• Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

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  Passionate, Proud, Christ

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.70

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• The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

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  Cristiano, Hombres, Mente

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.476

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