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Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

John Tillotson
Men, Religion, Purpose
John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.330

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

John Tillotson
Wise, Men, Religion
John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

John Tillotson
Reality, Religion, World

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