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Top 15 Cotton Mather Quotes (2025 Update)

Cotton Mather Quote: “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!”

1. “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

Cotton Mather Quote: “Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.”

2. “Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.”

3. “Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.”

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Cotton Mather Quote: “Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”

4. “Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Cotton Mather Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Cotton Mather Quote: “Our opportunities to do good are our talents.”

7. “Our opportunities to do good are our talents.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!”

8. “Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker’s praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.”

9. “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

Cotton Mather Quote: “Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”

10. “Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Cotton Mather Quote: “History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

12. “History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.”

13. “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

Cotton Mather Quote: “A Good School deserves to be call’d, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.”

14. “A Good School deserves to be call’d, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.”

15. “Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “Wrestle with the Lord. Receive no denial. Earnestly protest, Lord, I will not let thee go, except thou bless this poor child of mine, and make it your own! Do this, until, if it may be, your heart is raised by a touch of heaven, to a particular faith; that God has blessed this child, and it shall be blessed and saved forever.”

16. “Wrestle with the Lord. Receive no denial. Earnestly protest, Lord, I will not let thee go, except thou bless this poor child of mine, and make it your own! Do this, until, if it may be, your heart is raised by a touch of heaven, to a particular faith; that God has blessed this child, and it shall be blessed and saved forever.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil’s Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the Devil was exceedingly disturbed, when he perceived such a People here accomplishing the Promise of old made unto our Blessed Jesus, That He should have the Utmost parts of the Earth for his Possession.”

17. “The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil’s Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the Devil was exceedingly disturbed, when he perceived such a People here accomplishing the Promise of old made unto our Blessed Jesus, That He should have the Utmost parts of the Earth for his Possession.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.”

18. “You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.”

— Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Quote: “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? – 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?”

19. “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? – 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

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