“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 is a region of Light and Peace, did not man disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.”

—  Thomas Traherne

First Century, sect. 31.
Centuries of Meditations

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "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 is a…" by Thomas Traherne?
Thomas Traherne photo
Thomas Traherne 16
English poet 1636–1674

Related quotes

“No man has yet appreciated all that is involved in Jesus' teaching regarding God.”

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman

Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 43

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Umberto Eco photo

“How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

Rabindranath Tagore photo

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

77
Stray Birds (1916)

Nikos Kazantzakis photo

“Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Freedom and Death (1956)
Context: God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

“God created man for fellowship… The fall of man ruined that and Paradise—that is, the garden of Eden—was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.”

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 88

Roger Williams (theologian) photo

“Although the loose will be more loose (yet) possibly being at more liberty they may be put upon consideration and choice of ways of life and peace, yet, however, it is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of traditional hypocrisy, which turns and dulls the very edge of all conscience either toward God or man.”

Roger Williams (theologian) (1603–1684) English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation

The Hireling Ministry, None of Christ's (1652)

Robert Browning photo

“Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Variant: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo

“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

On Sir William Temple (1838)

Related topics