John Tillotson Quotes

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle or a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, than for a politician to lay aside disguise.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, "Be good." Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, "Help!"

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.