93 Quotes by John Tillotson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

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.

These are some of the hardest islands to visit. Many of them don't have airports.

So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first

It's a classical destination. It's almost like a pilgrimage.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit of men

The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.