Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Command thy servant advisably with few plain words, fully, freely, and positively, with a grave countenance, and settled carriage: These will procure obedience, gain respect, and maintain authority.”
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”
topics: Philosophy
“Often the cockloft is empty in those whom nature hath built many stories high.”
topics: Philosophy
“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”
topics: Politics
“Praise not people to their faces, to the end that they may pay thee in the same coin. This is so thin a cobweb, that it may with little difficulty be seen through; 'tis rarely strong enough to catch flies of any considerable magnitude.”
topics: Praise
“The best way to be rid of bad thoughts in my prayers is not to receive them out of my prayers.”
topics: Prayer
“Leave not off praying to God: for either praying will make thee leave off sinning; or continuing in sin will make thee desist from praying.”
“Many favors which God gives us ravel out for want of hemming through our unthankfulness; for though prayer purchases blessings, giving praise keeps the quiet possession of them.”
“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
topics: Prayer
“Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. The faithful minister avoids such stories as may suggest bad thoughts to the auditors, and will not use a light comparison to make thereof a grave application, for fear lest his poison go further than his antidote.”
topics: Preaching
“It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, "that when he was out of the pulpit it was pity he should ever go into it; and when he was in the pulpit, it was pity he should ever come out of it."”
topics: Preaching
“Conceit not so high an opinion of any one as to be bashful and impotent in their presence.”
topics: Pride
“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”
topics: Pride
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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."