Jeremy Taylor Quotes

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy

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.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

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

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

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

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

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.

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.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

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

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

Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.