(Heb.

11:4)

Jeremy Taylor
Died
13th August 1667

 We must not only learn how to avoid evil but also learn how to do
good.

 What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of
heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is
not able to make an oyster!

 Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of

others.

 It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it

requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can
perceive it hath it not.

 Love is friendship set on fire.

 No sin is small. It is against an infinite God, and may have

consequences immeasurable. No grain of sand is small in the
mechanism of a watch.
 If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

 It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his

Helper is omnipotent.

 That man does certainly belong to God who studies to improve his
knowledge in the matters of God so as may best make him to live a
holy life.

 He, who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without
generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

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

 Let us lay aside for the services of God and the business of the
Spirit AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

 He that is choice of his time will also be choice of his company and
choice of his actions.

 The Holy Spirit is certainly the best preacher in the world and the
words of scripture the best sermons.

 A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

 Lust usually creeps in at that emptiness where the soul is

unemployed and the body is at ease. Avoid idleness!

 The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to

be desired when dying.

 Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner to God.

 To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. 

 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.

 The service of God should be done with great earnestness and

passion with much zeal and desire, refusing no labor, bestowing
upon it much time, using the best guides, arriving at the end of
glory by all the ways of grace, of prudence and religion.

 God has given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon
this short time Eternity depends.

 If we consider how much of our lives is taken up by the needs of

nature; how many years are wholly spent, before we come to any
use of reason; how many years more; before that reason is useful
to us to any great purpose; how imperfect our discourse is made
by our evil education, false principles, ill company, bad examples,
and want of experience; how many parts of our wisest and best
years are spent in eating and sleeping, in necessary business and
unnecessary vanities, in worldly civilities and less useful
circumstances, in the learning arts and sciences, languages or
trades; that little portion of hours, that is left for the practices and
piety and religious walking with God, is so short and trifling, that,
were not the goodness of God infinitely great, it might seem
unreasonable or impossible for us to expect of Him eternal joys in
Heaven, even after the well spending those few minutes, which are
left for God and God’s service, after we have served ourselves and
our own occasions.

‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’

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