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Top 25 Francis Atterbury Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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

2. “It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.”

3. “The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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?”

4. “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?”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.”

5. “It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “There is a variety in tempers of good men.”

7. “There is a variety in tempers of good men.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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

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

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.”

10. “Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.”

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

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

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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

14. “If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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

17. “Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.”

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

18. “The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.”

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

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

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.”

21. “The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Francis Atterbury Quote: “Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.”

25. “Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.”

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

26. “Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.”

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Francis Atterbury Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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

28. “From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.”

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