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Black background quote graphic featuring an oval, sepia-toned engraved portrait of John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, shown in clerical robes with a composed expression. Beside the portrait is a quotation about shared humanity—“bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh”—arguing that failure to pity those in need shows we have put off our own nature. The image includes his name, dates (1630–1694), and the label “Sermon CXXV.”
John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, takes Adam’s “bone of my bones” and says it means compassion: if someone in need doesn’t move you, you’ve shrugged off your own humanity.
Are we training ourselves to see suffering not as kinship, but as stupidity? How do you keep your nature intact? #CoE