John Tillotson Quotes About Passion

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  • 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 (1720). “Works”, p.121
  • Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

    John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.3
  • No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

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John Tillotson

  • Born: d. November 22, 1694
  • Died: November 22, 1694
  • Occupation: Archbishop of Canterbury