Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

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
Jeremy Taylor

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.