Jeremy Taylor Quotes

The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

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

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

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

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

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.

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

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.