Quotes from Jeremy Taylor

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.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

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.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

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.

Grumbling is the death of love.

We each define our god, and from this definition, we set the criteria for self-love

Love is a check that can be forged that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

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

Love is friendship set on fire

Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity; and those burdens are delightful.

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