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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
— Thomas Traherne
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
— Thomas Traherne
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world.
— Thomas Traherne
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
— Thomas Traherne
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
— Thomas Traherne
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
— Thomas Traherne
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
— Thomas Traherne
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
— Mary Douglas
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.
— Thomas Traherne
Once the two of you come together, even the devil himself will be running for cover.- The Duke of Traherne — Diana Quincy
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.
— Thomas Traherne
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.
— Thomas Traherne
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
— Thomas Traherne
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.
— Thomas Traherne
The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.
— Thomas Traherne
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
— Richard Stallman
Only the unity of all can bring the well-being of all.
— Robert Muller
Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?
— Thomas Traherne
Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.
— Thomas Traherne
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
— Thomas Traherne
As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
— Thomas Traherne
How like an angel came I down!
— Thomas Traherne
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
— Thomas Traherne
Souls are God's jewels.
— Thomas Traherne
To think well is to serve God in the interior court.
— Thomas Traherne
The closer he was the less confident I was.
— Shannon A. Thompson
We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.
— Thomas Traherne
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
— Thomas Traherne
You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
— Thomas Traherne