Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylorwas a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth15 August 1613
humility men littles
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
heart hands choices
The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of the affections and choice of the heart. So God was served in the letter, they did not much inquire into His purpose; and therefore they were curious to wash their hands, but cared not to purify their hearts.
beautiful mother daughter
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
squash ifs
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
gratitude giving thanks
...Learn to give thanks for everything.
fear parent superstitions
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
people devil doe
The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
men liberty meat
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.
evil looks
The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
arrows unjust acquisition
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
anger causes ridiculous
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.
eye perspective perfection
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.
gratitude book giving
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
love marriage wedding
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.