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Faith Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

81 Faith quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that faith looks up while sorrow looks back and worry looks around. He claims self‑trust is the first secret of success and that God enters each person through a private door. He also notes that nature and reason protect us when faith is strong.

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Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost…

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It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

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The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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“We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.”

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he…

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific…

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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury…

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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the…

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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told…

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went…

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what…

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into…

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...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason…

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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high…

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Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith…

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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed…

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“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the…

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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed…

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“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that…

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be…

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A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a…

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“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;…

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Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see…

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“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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The poem is a confession of faith.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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In the woods we return to reason and faith.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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