“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.” NeedsBodyAsksPrayerWatchesDutyLaborOur Prayers Book:The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
“A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol” MindSelfBodyActionMotherUnderstandingPrinciplesSweetPureDenialGod LoveSincereSoberSweet LoveCarriagesChasteSelf-denialDeliberationUnderstanding Love Author:Jeremy Taylor
“Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.” SoulReasonBodyPassionSinLustHinderCaptivity Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.” IfsPersonsSoulBodyEasySpaceBenefitsDevilLaborDrivingLustEmploymentEaseEmptinessIdleSevereTemptedIdlenessCreepsUnemployedChasteDriving Away Author:Jeremy Taylor
“The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.” BodyTogetherSufferingHellWinePressesMythologyAppropriateOrgansCrowdedExquisiteGrapes Author:Jeremy Taylor
