Jeremy Taylor Quotes

• Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hath given us in our nature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

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

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  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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• To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

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

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• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

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

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

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• Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

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• Love is friendship set on fire.

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• Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

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

   

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

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• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

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Jeremy Taylor (26)

Birth:	15th August, 1613
Death:	13th August, 1667
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman

About

Jeremy Taylor was born in Cambridge, England. He was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He earned a BA degree and an MA degree from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August. He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. He wrote several books include: A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, The Wisdom of Your Dreams, Dream Work, and The Living Labyrinth.

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