Thee Quotes - Page 8

• If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Spirit, Angry

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• There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wall, Men, Evil

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint John Chrysostom Collection [10 Books]”, p.2690, Aeterna Press

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• Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

  John Donne

  Home, Eye, Long

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.107, Oxford University Press, USA

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• During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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• Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
  Whether the summer clothe the general earth
  With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
  Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
  Of mossy apple tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, Sweet, Apples

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.113

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• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Deeds, Littles

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• God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beautiful, Art, Goodness

  Lord Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”

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• Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

  Hafez

  Doors, Choices, Contentment

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• And I myself a Catholic will be,
  So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
  Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
  On us, the Poets militant below.

  Abraham Cowley

  Catholic, Religion, Saint

  Abraham Cowley (1777). “Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes: with a Preface and Notes by the Editor. ...”, p.134

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• Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Lord, States

  'Interior Castle' Mansion 6, ch. 11, para. 6; translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, 1921

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• When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

  Jakob Bohme

  Art, Silence, Saws

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• When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Circles, Joy, Heaven

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Preserves, Thyself

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.490

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• Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Daughter, Farewell, Dark

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• Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Light, Affliction, Messengers

  Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1842). “The Waldenses, Or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch. With Other Poems”, p.295

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• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

  Stephen Crane

  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

  Mary Webb

  Giving, Digestion, Lord

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• Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Blow, Moon

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.194

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• I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  God, Children, Night

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• We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

  Rumi

  Music, Echoes, Mountain

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Flower, Sea, Wish

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• O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Art, Moving, Blessed

  St. Anselm of Canterbury “Anselm's Philosophy”, Lulu.com

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• In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

  Valmiki

  World, Heroic, Praying

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• Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.

  Edward Caswall

  Jesus, Sweetness, Breasts

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• O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
  To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Lovely, Everlasting Love

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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