Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. — 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
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with… — 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
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
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,… — 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
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.… — 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
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
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive. — 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
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. — 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
“His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — 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
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. — 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
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him. — 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
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 soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence. — 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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
