Jeremy Taylor Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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 souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Women, Eye, Heart

  Jeremy Taylor (1849). “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World”, p.67

• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Meditation, Soul, Wandering Thoughts

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.73

• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Meditation, Soul

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1851). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical”, p.73

• Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Real, Soul, Made

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.86

• God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Women, Soul, Faithful

  Jeremy Taylor (1850). “Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities”, p.58

• It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Eye, Perspective, Perfection

• Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  1660 The Worthy Communicant.

• Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Lust

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.138

• Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Space, Soul, Lust

• Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Foundation

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.306

• Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sympathy, Soul, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.314

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