The Divine Springtime

A collection of spiritual and poetic thoughts

Chris Rowan Grainger, Juliet Grainger, Chris Rowan Grainger, Juliet Grainger, Juliet Grainger

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781841503509
• eBook ISBN: 9781841503868
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion

For those moments of tension, when nerves are jangled and feelings stretched. This book uses short quotes from many spiritual and poetic sources to restore, revise and reassure. Among these quotes there may be one which offers companionship throughout the day.

Nature

The Divine Springtime is come.

Bestir thyself and magnify before the entire creation the name of God and celebrate His praise, in such wise that all created things may be regenerated and made new.

This is the Day whereon the unseen world crieth out “Great is thy blessedness O earth, for thou hast been made the foot-stool of thy God.

Baha’u’llah

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Song of Solomon

Blessed is the spot, and the house and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified.

Bahai Prayer

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils:

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

William Wordsworth

Fair daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early rising sun

Has not attained his noon.

Stay stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run.

Robert Herrick

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about them. Some rested their heads upon these stones as a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

Dorothy Wordsworth

Slowly, silently, now the moon,

Walks the night in her silver shoon.

Walter de la Mare

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing.

John Keats

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you.

Corinthians 3

O Son of Man

The temple of being is my throne;

Cleanse it of all things, that I may be

established and there I may abide.

Baha’u’llah

Every man of discernment, while walking upon the earth, feeleth indeed abashed inasmuch as he is fully aware that the thing which is the source of his prosperity, his wealth, his might, his exaltation, his advancement and power as ordained by God, is the very earth which is trodden beneath the feet of all men.

The whole universe reflecteth His glory.

This is what is meant by divine unity.

Baha’u’llah

He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul

Psalm 23

Neath the shade of Thy protecting wings let me nestle and cast

upon me the glance of Thine all protecting eye.

Abdu’l-Baha

Nature is painting for us day after day pictures of infinite beauty

John Ruskin

The wonders of His bounty can never cease, and the stream of

His merciful grace can never be arrested.

Baha’u’llah

The sound of the wind in the trees speaks to me as an inner voice.

The breath of life fills me.

Juliet

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Table of contents

• Coverpage
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1. Nature
• 2. Calm
• 3. Love
• 4. Healing
• References
• Copyright