The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed. Jeremy Taylor More Quotes by Jeremy Taylor More Quotes From Jeremy Taylor A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. Jeremy Taylor superstitionsparentfear Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. Jeremy Taylor truthmistakemen To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. Jeremy Taylor balancespiritdesire A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. Jeremy Taylor without-godmysteryreligion Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law. Jeremy Taylor lawlovegiving Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned. Jeremy Taylor hatelove-isinspirational Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend. Jeremy Taylor eating-disorderanorexiaenemy Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy Jeremy Taylor blessingfaithbelieve Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron. Jeremy Taylor ironhumilityhumble All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems. Jeremy Taylor creativitydreamfaces A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. Jeremy Taylor celibacyapplesheart My life is blessed; I have held my children's children. Jeremy Taylor grandparentblessedchildren When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us. Jeremy Taylor prayermenlooks 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. Jeremy Taylor gardenofficeprayer 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. Jeremy Taylor perspectiveeyeperfection From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving. Jeremy Taylor gratitudegivingbook 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. Jeremy Taylor ridiculousangercauses Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord. Jeremy Taylor unionsreligiousmen In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment. Jeremy Taylor employmentselfordinary 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. Jeremy Taylor libertymeatmen
