Cotton Mather Quotes
A socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer.
(1663 - 1728)
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[The Devil] impregnates the air with such malignant salts as, meeting with the salt of our microcosm, shall immediately cast us into that fermentation and putrefaction which will utterly dissolve all the vital ties within us.
[Affliction]
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A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
[School]
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
[Ignorance]
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
[Family]
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
[History]
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
[Religion]
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The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.
[Injury]
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There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
[Prayer]
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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.
[Christianity]
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