“My work here is not to satisfy people’s appetite for speculation,

but to serve practical needs:

to preach to the weary,

to comfort the sick,

to help the repentant,

to challenge the overconfident,

and to strengthen weak hands and feeble knees.

I have little else left to me by which to give alms or practice the kind of charity by which we will be judged on the Day of Judgment.

It is enough for me to be a lowly builder in God’s house, and I take pride in the work.

I labor on the foundations,

so the work needs no apology for being plain,

as long as it is strong and well laid.

But, my Lord, humble as it is, I must thank God for the desire and the strength....”

Jeremy Taylor.