Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylorwas a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth15 August 1613
prayer men looks
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; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.
prayer needs body
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
gratitude integrity blessing
The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
love-is law giving
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.
friendship secret secrecy
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
squash ifs
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
humble humility iron
Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.
mistake men errors
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
daughter prayer issues
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
humility men littles
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
blessing yesterday evil
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
ingredients rewards virtue
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
world scripture ghost
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.
thanksgiving song widows
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.