Jeremy Taylor > Quotes

“Love is friendship set on fire.”
― Jeremy Taylor

“there are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see but we feel their foorce and sink under their sword.”
― 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 whose sinews gave it motion.”
― Jeremy Taylor

“Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and your needs must be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.”
― Jeremy Taylor

“De Waal’s argument is, I believe, one of the most egregious fallacies in studies of evolution. It is to claim that, simply because we are closely related genetically, we must be closely related behaviourally.”
― Jeremy Taylor, Not a Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human

“Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.”
― Jeremy Taylor

“Nothing is intolerable that is necessary. Now God hath bound thy trouble upon thee by His special providence, and with a design to try thee, and with purposes to reward and crown thee. These cords thou canst not break, and therefore lie thou down gently, and suffer the hand of God to do what He pleases.”
― Jeremy Taylor