Francis Atterbury Quotes
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Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.
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Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
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The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.
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Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
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Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.
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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.
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They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
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Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.
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A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
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There is a variety in tempers of good men.
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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
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The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.
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A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.
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He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.
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It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.
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Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
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A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.
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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
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The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.
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A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.
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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.
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Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.
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The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.
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It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
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It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.
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The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.
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What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.
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Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.
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Francis Atterbury
- Born: March 6, 1663
- Died: February 22, 1732
- Occupation: Bishop of Rochester
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