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God Quotes by Thomas Traherne
- The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It…
- 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…
- To think well is to serve God in the interior court.
- 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.
- 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…
- This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
- Souls are God's jewels.
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- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
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- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi