Quotes from Jeremy Taylor

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

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

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.

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.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

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

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

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

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

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

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.

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

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

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.

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.

...for so a wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

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.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

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.

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

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.

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