32 Quotes by Francis Atterbury

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.