The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — 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
“His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.” — 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
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive. — 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
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
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely… — 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
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the… — 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
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury… — 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
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
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
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
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough. — 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 world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles. — 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
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. — 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
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
