Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.”
topics: Charity
“Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange, undutiful children.”
topics: Children
“Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity. One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.”
topics: Children
“Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.”
“It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.”
topics: Church
“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”
“A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself.”
topics: Conscience
“One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.”
“Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasures; the limits of good and evil join.”
“If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou art dieted for health.”
topics: Contentment
“Thou must content thyself to see the world imperfect as it is. Thou wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself because thou canst not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life which thou hast formed in thy own mind.”
topics: Contentment
“Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”
“If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.”
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Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen.
His sense of humour kept him from extremes. "By his particular temper and management," said Echard (Hist. of England), "he weathered the late great storm with more success than many other great men." He was known as "a perfect walking library." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote Coleridge after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's intellect". Charles Lamb made some selections from Fuller, and admired his "golden works."