93 Quotes by John Tillotson

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.