The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

- Jeremy Taylor

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

- Jeremy Taylor

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

- Jeremy Taylor

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 whos…

- Jeremy Taylor

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their soul…

- Jeremy Taylor

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the eart…

- Jeremy Taylor

A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest d…

- Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

- Jeremy Taylor

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

- Jeremy Taylor