Jeremy Taylor Quotes (44 Quotes)

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us for Himself is love and it is the greatest thing we can give to God for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Temperance is reason's girdle, and passion's bride, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Love is friendship set on fire.

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation sober counsels and ingenuous actions open deportment and sweet carriage sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding love of God and self-denial peace and confidence hol

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could

The privative blessingsthe blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity which we enjoy deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that make her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, And there is no knowledge that is not power.

The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

The greatest evils, are from within us and from ourselves Also we must look for the greatest good.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life.

The conditions were terrible, I thought that our guys played well in the second half though.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.