132 Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

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.