John Tillotson Quotes
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
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Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
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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.
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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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.
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Great is the advantage of patience.