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God Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

102 God quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson writes playful lines that picture God as a sailor, a hidden ruler, and a dealer. He talks about God sending many deputies, being present in moss and cobwebs, and offering bargains to those who ask. He also jokes that every person hides a divine fool inside.

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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“I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.”

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Love is the essence of God…

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I am a part and parcel of God.

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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.

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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak…

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every…

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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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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,…

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as…

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the…

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Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there…

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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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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,…

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The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.…

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But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a…

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,…

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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God.…

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a…

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“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint…

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“Man is a god in ruins.”

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Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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There is a crack in everything God has made

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The dice of God are always loaded.

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God hid the whole world in thy heart.

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To Be is to live with God.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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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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