A biography for Jeremy Taylorhasn’t been written yet.
“God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.”
“Dive on them and squash them if you must.”
“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”
“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.”
“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.”
“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.”