Jeremy Taylor citations

Jeremy Taylor, né en 1613 à Cambridge et mort le 13 août 1667 à Lisburn, est un théologien et prédicateur anglican. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. août 1613 – 13. août 1667
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Jeremy Taylor: Citations en anglais

“Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 218.

“…since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”

"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".

“…for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens…”

"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".

“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.

“The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not.”

But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
"Apples of Sodom," part II, sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)