J Tillotson Quotes & Sayings

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? — John Tillotson

They're doing a rain dance? A rain dance? In my hotel? On Waikiki Beach? A rain dance? — Richard Tillotson

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. — John Tillotson

Send me the pillow you dream on — Johnny Tillotson

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state. — John Tillotson

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

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. — John Tillotson

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

University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure. — Richard Tillotson

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

See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way. — Johnny Tillotson

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. — John Tillotson

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. — John Tillotson

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. — John Tillotson

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

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? — John Tillotson

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy. — John Tillotson

Fill each day with light and heart. — John Tillotson

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

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

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? — John Tillotson

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. — John Tillotson

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

Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. — Johnny Tillotson

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing. — John Tillotson

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions. — John Tillotson

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

Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it. — Richard Tillotson

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. — John Tillotson

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