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
Topics: Prayer
Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers in the east.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Morning
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Gratitude
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
—Jeremy Taylor
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.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Faith
Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, glorious, indeed, in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Prosperity
Faith is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it—things past, and things to come; it converses with angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. Every man that hath this grace is as certain there are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as if he had heard and sung the thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Faith
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Religion
Nothing does so establish the mind amidst the rollings and turbulences of present things, as to look above them and beyond them—above them, to the steady and good hand by which they are ruled, and beyond them, to the sweet and beautiful end to which, by that hand, they will be brought.
—Jeremy Taylor
He that hath so many and great causes of joy, and yet is in love with sorrow and peevishness, deserves to starve in the midst of plenty, and to want comfort, while he is encircled with blessings.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Sorrow
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.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Prayer
Right intention is to the actions of a man what the soul is to the body, or the root to the tree.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Intentions
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Wisdom
Idleness is the burial of a living man.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Idleness
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Prayer
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
Topics: Fortune
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Understanding
That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of calamity.
—Jeremy Taylor
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Learning, Ignorance, Pride
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.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Idleness
A fair reputation is a plant delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth.—It will not shoot up in a night, like the gourd of the prophet, but like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Reputation
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy; a friend shares my sorrow and makes it but a moiety, but he swells my joy and makes it double.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Sympathy
Two things create love perfection and usefulness, to which answer, on our part, admiration and desire; and both these are centered in love.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Love
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.
—Jeremy Taylor
We are in the world like men playing at tables; the chance is not in our power, but to pay it is; and when it is fallen, we must manage it as we can.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Chance
The labor and sweat of our brows is so far from being a curse, that without it our very bread would not be so great a blessing.—If it were not for labor, men could neither eat so much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor sleep so soundly, nor be so healthful, so useful, so strong, so patient, so noble, nor so untempted.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Labor
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Mystery
Never be a judge between thy friends in any matter where both set their hearts upon the victory. If strangers or enemies be litigants, whatever side thou favorest, thou gettest a friend; but when friends are the parties thou losest one.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Judgment
Man and wife are equally concerned to avoid all offense of each other in the beginning of their conversation. A little thing can blast an infant blossom.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
—Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Generosity, Happiness
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