John Cotton Quotes

• Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

  John Cotton

  Christian, Religious, World

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• Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

  John Cotton

  Liberty, Tasks, Fundamentals

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• Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

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  Beauty, Age, Relation

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• Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

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  Love, Light, Burden

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• Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

  John Cotton

  Government, People, Democracy

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• The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

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  Witty, Bees, Satan

  "The powring ovt of the seven vials".

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• If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

  John Cotton

  Wall, Sea, Liberty

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• A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

  John Cotton

  Art, Museums, Hours

  "Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums" by Tara Mulholland, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2010.

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