John Tillotson
John Tillotson
John Tillotsonwas the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
passion order lust
It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.
passionate proud christ
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
liberty highest
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
spiritual blessing preparation
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 receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.
christian believe men
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 coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.
gratitude evil disease
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.
world littles sincere
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
education book fall
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 fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?
happiness pain men
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.
journey men way
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 lose themselves.
confidence hurt men
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
bible book world
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
nice men dust
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
anger liable controversy
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.