God Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

102 God quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s 102 quotes on God channel his transcendentalist ethos, urging readers to look beyond the material and sense a deeper, universal spirit. The collection invites contemplation and a fresh appreciation for the unseen.

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“Man is a god in ruins.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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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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I am a part and parcel of God.

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To Be is to live with God.

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God hid the whole world in thy heart.

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There is a crack in everything God has made

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Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the…

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and…

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Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not…

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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with…

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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all…

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

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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.…

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual…

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact…

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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth…

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Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan…

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Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters…

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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve…

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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and…

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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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The dice of God are always loaded.

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

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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Love is the essence of God…

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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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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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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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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