Quotes from John Tillotson
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
- John Tillotson
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
- John Tillotson
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.
- John Tillotson
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.
- John Tillotson
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.
- John Tillotson
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
- John Tillotson
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.
- John Tillotson
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.
- John Tillotson
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it, of a great mind.
- John Tillotson