Cotton Mather famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
-- Cotton Mather

#Opportunity #Second Chance #Chance
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
-- Cotton Mather

#Agony #Impossible
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
-- Cotton Mather

#Ignorance #Done #World
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
-- Cotton Mather

#Believe #Thinking #Evil
What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.
-- Cotton Mather

#Christian #Book #Writing
That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
-- Cotton Mather

#Ignorance #Scary #Devil
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.
-- Cotton Mather

#Lakes #Sea #Fishing
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
-- Cotton Mather

#History #Events #Stories
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
-- Cotton Mather

#Nurse #Firsts #Combination
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
-- Cotton Mather

#May #Diligence #Heard
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.
-- Cotton Mather

#Book #Reading #Scripture
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
-- Cotton Mather

#Prayer #Children #Reading
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
-- Cotton Mather

#Daughter #Mother #Prosperity
A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
-- Cotton Mather

#School #Salt #Towns
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?â€”yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?
-- Cotton Mather

#Jesus #Dancing #Church
Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
-- Cotton Mather

#Land #Wilderness #Passing
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
-- Cotton Mather

#Devil #Influence #Doubted
Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
-- Cotton Mather

#Children #Devil #Bed
Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
-- Cotton Mather

#War #Dying #Bears
Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
-- Cotton Mather

#Abuse #Charity #May

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