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Church Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
- If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than…
- Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
- When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church…
- He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the…
- God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
- How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can…
- Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will…
- A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to…
- [Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and…
- I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.
- If I have renounced the searchof truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin,…
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