John Tillotson Quotes

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

John Tillotson

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Virtue

• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Me
  • Contentment

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Spiritual

• Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Virtue
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Poverty

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Virtue

• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Able
  • Miserable
  • Contentment

• I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

  

  William Sadler
  • Thinking
  • Childhood
  • Gun

• I've come to understand over the years that you're not going to please everybody. Some people are not interested in seeing a woman in the role of a broadcaster. But there are a lot of people who do come into this with an open mind, and it's up to me to prove to them that I'm qualified for the job and can get it done.

  

  Beth Mowins
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Interested

• I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

  

  Iain Banks

• When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

  

  Alan Paton
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Question

• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Virtue
  • Behinds
  • Contentment