The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share