Francis Atterbury famous quotes

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Gains #Reputation #Strive

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
-- Francis Atterbury

#School #Affliction #Virtue

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Ministers #Priesthood

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Office #Needs #Enmity

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Powerful #Temptation #Littles

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Powerful #Charity #Incentives

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Charity #Acts Of Charity #Smallest

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Use #Charity #Life Is

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
-- Francis Atterbury

#God #Perfection #Delight

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Government #Would Be #Mankind

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Sacrifice #Men #Good Man

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Firsts #Steps #Sin

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Mean #Solitude #Encounters

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Humble #People #Victory

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Success #Favors

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Wise #Blessing #Community

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Wise #Men #Order

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?
-- Francis Atterbury

#Wise #Grieving #Knowing

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Writing #Heart #Men

It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning,
-- Francis Atterbury

#Average #Differences #Details

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Causes #Drink #Invisible

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Christian #Country #Practice

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Men #Good Man #Sake

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Future #This Life #Enjoyment

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Future #World #Importance

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Heaven #Impossible #Another Life

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Degenerates #Hospitality #Madness

There is a variety in tempers of good men.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Men #Good Man #Temper

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Character #Mean #Ends

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.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Believe #Discovery #Other Worlds

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Flow #Absurdity #Falsity