Jeremy Taylor Quotations

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.

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

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

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

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