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. Jeremy Taylor More Quotes by Jeremy Taylor More Quotes From Jeremy Taylor 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. Jeremy Taylor despair sorrow loss Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. Jeremy Taylor passion doubt friendship For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens. Jeremy Taylor whatever-happens virtue happens 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. Jeremy Taylor space soul lust Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles. Jeremy Taylor nero moles kings Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. Jeremy Taylor solitude mistake quiet Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. Jeremy Taylor hypocrisy hypocrite enemy This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious. Jeremy Taylor grace action common The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. Jeremy Taylor gratitude thanksgiving integrity It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear. Jeremy Taylor humility littles men 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. Jeremy Taylor temptation littles long Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched. Jeremy Taylor treasure evil people Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener. Jeremy Taylor praying prayer may He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. Jeremy Taylor riches fool gold Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. Jeremy Taylor foundation passion soul Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. Jeremy Taylor sensibility constant God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows. Jeremy Taylor failing blessing god Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom. Jeremy Taylor wife littles men Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it. Jeremy Taylor prayer god 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. Jeremy Taylor prayer lying hands
