The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Quotes

“Do not think that God is only to be found in a great prayer, or a solemn office: he is moved by a sigh, by a groan, by an act of love; and therefore, when your pain is great and pungent, lay all your strength upon it.”
― Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

“And yet nature hath in them teeth and nails enough to scratch and fight against the sickness, and by such aids as God is pleased to give them they wade through the storm and murmur not.”
― Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

“[...] because it must be had by some instrument, and in some period of our duration, we must carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity is the state, angels are the company, the Lamb is the light, and God is the portion and inheritance.”
― Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

“A man is so vain, so unfixed, so perishing a creature, that he cannot long last in the scene of fancy: a man goes off, and is forgotten, like the dream of a distracted person. The sum of all is this: that thou art a man, than whom there is not in the world any greater instance of heights and declinations, of lights and shadows, of misery and folly, of laughter and tears, of groans and death.”
― Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying