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
More Quotes By Cotton Mather
Charity … is kind, it is not easily provok’d, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes... That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence... Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will... What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is... The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the... That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences... Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let... Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death?... Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach... Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
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