QuotesTemple
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
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
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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