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From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.
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This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
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Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
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