Thomas Traherne Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• 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”

• A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

  Thomas Traherne

  Religion, Gardening, World

  The Salutation (published 1903).

• Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

  Thomas Traherne

  Life And Love, Spring, Men

  Thomas Traherne, Dick Davis (1980). “Selected writings of Thomas Traherne”, Carcanet Pr

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