Jeremy Taylor
English bishop and devotional writer, 1613-1667
22 quotes.
Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
- A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
- Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow.
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy.
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. A friend shares my sorrow, and makes it but a moiety; but he swells my joy, and makes it double.
- Every petition to God is a precept to man.
- He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
- Idleness is the burial of a living man.
- It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper is omnipotent.
- Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, and it is the greatest we can give God.
- Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies.
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
- No man can be provident of his time, who is not prudent in the choice of his company.
- 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.
- No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character.
- Nothing is intolerable that is necessary.
- Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.
- Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
- The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
- The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
- The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
- To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
- Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.