John Tillotson Quotes
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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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If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
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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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Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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Great is the advantage of patience.
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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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Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.