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.
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Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
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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