132 Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

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.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

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 greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.