John Tillotson
John Tillotson
John Tillotsonwas the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
hardest islands
These are some of the hardest islands to visit. Many of them don't have airports.
needs principles evidence
If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.
long return action
It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.
arbitrary wickedness vices
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
greatness men practice
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
soul suffering frailty
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
passionate proud christ
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
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.
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.
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.