Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

About Jeremy Taylor:

Jeremy Taylor is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August.
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

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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.

Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor

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

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Love is friendship set on fire.

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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor

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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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

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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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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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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

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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.

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

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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

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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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Dive on them and squash them if you must.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJeremy Taylor
  • DescriptionEnglish clergyman
  • BornAugust 15, 1613
  • DiedAugust 13, 1667
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionPriest; Theologian