A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

- Jeremy Taylor

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

- Jeremy Taylor

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

- Jeremy Taylor

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

- Jeremy Taylor

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

- Jeremy Taylor

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

- Jeremy Taylor

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

- Jeremy Taylor

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

- Jeremy Taylor

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

- Jeremy Taylor

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

- Jeremy Taylor

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

- 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

Love is friendship set on fire.

- Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

- Jeremy Taylor

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

- 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

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

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

- 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