Cotton Mather Quotes

"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."
- Cotton Mather

"There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray."
- Cotton Mather
(Related: May)

"Our opportunities to do good are our talents."
- Cotton Mather

"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
- Cotton Mather
(Related: History, Blame, Events, Praise)

"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
- Cotton Mather
(Related: Ignorance)

"Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind."
- Cotton Mather
(Related: First, Mankind)