John Tillotson
John Tillotson
John Tillotsonwas the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
liberty highest
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
men benefits might
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
forgiving mind able
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
christian men wicked
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
men way
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
men sick heaven
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.
men decree subtle
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
dark thinking danger
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
journey men way
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
world littles sincere
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
education book fall
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?
gratitude evil disease
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
christian believe men
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.
spiritual blessing preparation
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.