Top 87 Jeremy Taylor Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
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#3. Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.
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#4. Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#9. From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
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#10. The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
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#11. Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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#12. The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
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#15. There are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see but we feel their foorce and sink under their sword.
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#16. He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
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#17. Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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
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#20. An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
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#21. Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
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#22. Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.
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#23. Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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#24. Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
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#25. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
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#27. The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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#28. Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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#29. Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered By reading of one book.
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#30. A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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#31. Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
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#32. Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.
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#33. In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.
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#34. Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
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#35. 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
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#36. Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
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#37. To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
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#38. 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.
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#39. He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.
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#45. If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
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#46. This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
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#47. A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
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#48. Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.
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#49. A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety ...
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#50. Since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
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#51. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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#52. So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
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#53. Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.
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#54. The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.
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#55. 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.
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#57. No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
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#58. The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
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#59. Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
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#60. 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.
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#61. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
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#62. Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
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#63. God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
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#64. He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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#65. It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
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#66. The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
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#67. Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.
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#68. All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.
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#69. Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.
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#70. Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
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#71. Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.
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#73. 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.
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#74. To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.
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#75. Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds ...
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#76. The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.
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#77. God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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#78. All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
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#79. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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#80. Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is holiness to the Lord.
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#81. This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
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#82. For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens ...
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#83. The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.
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#84. Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
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#85. Revenge ... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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#86. Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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#87. Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
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