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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
John Tillotson
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John Tillotson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1630
Born: October 10
Died: 1694
Died: November 22
Archbishop Of Canterbury
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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.
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The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
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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.
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If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
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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.
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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.
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To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
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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?
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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.
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If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?
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Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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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.
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Convulsive anger storms at large or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.
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We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
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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?
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
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Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
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If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
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