To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“Our Saviour's meaning, when He said, He must be born again and become a little child that will enter in the Kingdom… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“By Love alone is God enjoyed, by Love alone delighted in, by Love alone approached or admired. His Nature requires Love, thy… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them,… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
