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 TillotsonSome 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 TillotsonWe anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
John TillotsonIf 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 TillotsonNext to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
John TillotsonThe 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