Thomas Traherne Quotes
Top 24 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?
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?
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
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.