Quotes from John Tillotson

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

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.

Integrity gains strength by use.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

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.

The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.

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.

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.

Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?