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 More Quotes by John Tillotson More Quotes From John Tillotson Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? John Tillotson procrastination sea sleep Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. John Tillotson purpose men religion 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 sober bears men Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. John Tillotson lines truth way It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other. John Tillotson return action long Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? John Tillotson passionate proud christ 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. John Tillotson drinking sleep night 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 subtle decree men Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? John Tillotson guilty-conscience wicked men Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. John Tillotson wickedness distraction kind Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time. John Tillotson care wise forever The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. John Tillotson hype deception art Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. John Tillotson affliction gratitude evil 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 sincere littles world There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men. John Tillotson power men way 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? John Tillotson education book fall Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. John Tillotson fool wise men In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. John Tillotson reputation reality world 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 journey men way They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. John Tillotson highest liberty power
