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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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 religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

- Jeremy Taylor

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to m…

- Jeremy Taylor