Jeremy Taylor Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sweet, Kissing, Men

• When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Men, Looks

• Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Foundation

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.306

• For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Virtue, Whatever Happens, Happens

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.84

• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Rewards, Ingredients, Virtue

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