Quote

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.

John Tillotson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Tillotson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1630
Born: October 10
Died: 1694
Died: November 22
Archbishop Of Canterbury
Priest
Affair
Gains
Procures
Authority
Magistrate
Religion
Veneration
Reality
Magistrates
Power
Strengthens
Much
Affairs
World
Reputation

More quotes by John Tillotson

Image
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
John Tillotson
Image
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
John Tillotson
Image
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
Image
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
Image
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
John Tillotson
Image
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.
John Tillotson
Image
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
John Tillotson
Image
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.
John Tillotson
Image
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.
John Tillotson
Image
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
John Tillotson
Image
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
John Tillotson
Image
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
John Tillotson
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
John Tillotson
Image
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
Image
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
Image
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
John Tillotson
Image
Convulsive anger storms at large or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.
John Tillotson
Image
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
John Tillotson