We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
John TillotsonThough 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 TillotsonIf God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
John TillotsonWhether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
John Tillotson