John Tillotson Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• 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

  World, Littles, Sincere

  "The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions".

• 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

  Vices, Arbitrary, Wickedness

• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  John Tillotson

  Passion, Order, Lust

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.121

• Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

  John Tillotson

  Greatness, Men, Wisest Man

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