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
fearful god great idle name tongue
Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue
passion soul lust
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.
desire disclose impatience poor proclaim prosperity wants
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.
break-up revenge men
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
mistake solitude quiet
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
space soul lust
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.
gratitude book giving
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
anorexia enemy eating-disorder
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
friendship passion mind
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....
order use affection
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.
reading book men
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
kings moles nero
Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.
self employment examination
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.
morning memories night
I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.