Quote

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

Jeremy Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
Author
Priest
Theologian
Writer
Heart
Friendship
Counsel
Mind
Capable
Usefulness
Men
Greatest
Bravery
Love
Open
Union
Suffering
Unions
Truth
Brave
Severest
Women
Communication
Sufferings
Mean
Minds
Noblest

More quotes by Jeremy Taylor

Image
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
Image
If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Children, honor your parents in your hearts bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
No man can hinder our private addresses to God every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
The greatest evils, are from within us and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
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.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
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
Image
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
Jeremy Taylor