Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English priest William Jay.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
The Rev. William Jay was an English nonconformist divine who preached for sixty years at Argyle Chapel in Bath. He was an eminent English Congregationalist minister of Regency England.
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.