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.
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Jeremy Taylor
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About Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was an English cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jeremy TaylorA religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Love is friendship set on fire.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Love is friendship set on fire.
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.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.