The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. Jeremy Taylor More Quotes by Jeremy Taylor More Quotes From Jeremy Taylor He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. Jeremy Taylor ties together heart 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 passion soul lust No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society. Jeremy Taylor heart love children To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. Jeremy Taylor miracle men life A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol Jeremy Taylor self mother sweet Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor. Jeremy Taylor envy time retirement Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. Jeremy Taylor tongue god names 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. Jeremy Taylor choices heart hands Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness. Jeremy Taylor issues daughter prayer Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies. Jeremy Taylor catching laziness busy 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. Jeremy Taylor wine suffering together The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed. Jeremy Taylor devil doe people To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. Jeremy Taylor be-proud proud ignorance An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. Jeremy Taylor acquisition arrows unjust Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. Jeremy Taylor incontinence curiosity spirit Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. Jeremy Taylor real soul made ...Learn to give thanks for everything. Jeremy Taylor thanks gratitude giving No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. Jeremy Taylor desire men thinking Friendship is the strongest bond in the world. Jeremy Taylor strongest friendship world If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it. Jeremy Taylor thorns trouble needs
