Top 34 Cotton Mather Quotes
#1. Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Kevin Dunn
#2. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#3. Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
Edmund Morgan
#4. The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.
Robert J. Allison
#5. The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
William F. Buckley Jr.
#6. History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
Cotton Mather
#7. 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
#9. I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.
Mike Mignola
#10. There are times when you long for answers and you become painfully aware that you are surrounded by people who may not even comprehend your questions
Srividya Srinivasan
#11. There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
Alexander Cockburn
#12. That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
Cotton Mather
#13. 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
#14. You have the power to feel good - or not - just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#16. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
Cotton Mather
#17. Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton Mather
#18. Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Cotton Mather
#19. 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
#20. You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
Cotton Mather
#21. 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
#22. There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Cotton Mather
#23. Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton Mather
#25. Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
C. Wright Mills
#26. Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was an excellent way to make new friends, though.
Rachel Vincent
#27. A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
Cotton Mather
#28. Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
Cotton Mather
#29. 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
#30. You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.
Cotton Mather
#31. Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
Cotton Mather
#32. Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Cotton Mather
#33. Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time.
Nikki Rowe
#34. Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
Cotton Mather
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