Jeremy Taylor Quotes
"He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Friend, Zeal)
"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Friendship, Chastity, Secrecy)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Heart, Sweetness)
"A religion without mystery must be a religion without God."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Religion, God, Mystery)
"Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Men, Anticipation, Conscience, Opinions)
"Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Curiosity, Spirit)
"Dive on them and squash them if you must."
- Jeremy Taylor
"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Time, God, Earth, Eternity, Man)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Fool, Gold, Neighbors)
"He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Home, Wife, Children)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: God, Conscience, Man, Reason)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Anger, Cause)
"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Ignorance, Learning)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Trust, Lie, Dying, Prayer)
"Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Virtue, Act, Reward)
"Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Work, God)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: People, Knowledge, Ignorance)
"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Life, Knowledge, Theology)
"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."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Fortune, Impatience, Man, Poor)
"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Mother, Action, Daughters, Habits)
"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Friend, Enemy)
"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Soul, Language, Meditation, Spirit, Tongue)
"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Marriage, Mother, Churches, Cities, Heaven, World)
"Love is friendship set on fire."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Friendship, Love, Fire)