Jeremy Taylor Quotes - Page 3

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

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

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.

I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

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.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

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

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.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

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.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

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

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

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.

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

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

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

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.