62 Quotes by Thomas Traherne

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.

An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love...

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.

That anything may be found to be in infinite treasure, its place must be found in Eternity and in God’s esteem. For as there is a time, so there is a place for all things. Everything in its place is admirable, deep, and glorious; out of its place like a wandering bird, is desolate and good for nothing.

The world is indeed the beautiful frontispiece of eternity.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.