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
hypocrite hypocrisy enemy
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
space soul lust
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.
mistake solitude quiet
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
blessing yesterday evil
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
evil world spirit
since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
art atheist philosophy
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.
virtue whatever-happens happens
for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...
women eye heart
All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
meditation soul wandering-thoughts
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
sadness men sad-life
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
break-up revenge men
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.
life time men
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
conditions guys half played second
The conditions were terrible, I thought that our guys played well in the second half though.