Thomas Traherne Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

  Thomas Traherne

  Song, Stars, Wind

  Thomas Traherne, “Dumbness”

• Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Air, Sea

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

  Thomas Traherne

  Morning, Father, Angel

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

• Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Children, Silly

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

• He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.

  Thomas Traherne

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Traherne (1968). “Christian Ethicks”

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