Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a mans 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.”

“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit”

“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth”

“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge”

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

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.

Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.

Love is friendship set on fire.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without 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.

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

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

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

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.