John Tillotson
John Tillotson
John Tillotsonwas the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
benefit god men might necessary seem
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit of men
integrity men reputation
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
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.
christian men mind
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
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.
strong passion men
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.
men religion purpose
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
wise men religion
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
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.
men bears sober
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
men thinking quality
If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?
lying men church
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 and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
men benefits might
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
christian men wicked
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.