Religious Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Genius is religious.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson