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Archbishop Of Canterbury Inspirational Quotes (97)

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The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
John Tillotson
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There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.
John Tillotson
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A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.
George Carey
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You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.
Michael Ramsey
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson
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When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
John Tillotson
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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.
John Tillotson
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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud
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Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.
William Wake
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When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy when they are easy, we take pleasure in them when they please us, we do them frequently and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
John Tillotson
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We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
George Carey
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In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.
Geoffrey Fisher
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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.
John Tillotson
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I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
Michael Ramsey
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An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
George Carey
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
John Tillotson
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Some things will not bear much zeal and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
John Tillotson
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
John Tillotson
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And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.
John Tillotson
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
John Tillotson
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Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.
William Wake
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Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
John Tillotson
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Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
John Tillotson
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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
Robert Runcie
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