Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. – Jeremy Taylor
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another mans 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
God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women. – Jeremy Taylor
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying. – Jeremy Taylor
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. – Jeremy Taylor
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. – Jeremy Taylor
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. – Jeremy Taylor
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. – Jeremy Taylor
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. – Jeremy Taylor
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. – Jeremy Taylor
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. – Jeremy Taylor
Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. – Jeremy Taylor
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. – Jeremy Taylor
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. – Jeremy Taylor
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
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. – Jeremy Taylor
