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Religion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
- I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward…
- The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
- Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
- As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
- The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts…
- Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
- Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,…
- The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
- The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful…
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
- The religions we call false were once true.
- The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
- I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
- Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the…
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
- I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
- The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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