Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About God

• God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Religious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press

• Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, God, Angel

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Nature, Glory

• The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Mean, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics

• When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

• A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Greatness, Men

• The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

• Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Men, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

• The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Moss, Doctrine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

• Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Art, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

• When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Rose, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

• There is a crack in everything God has made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Cracks, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.62

• A man is a god in ruins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Art, Philosophy

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

• Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, God, Bystanders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

• Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Brother, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.34, Coyote Canyon Press

• The dice of God are always loaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Luck, Dice

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

• Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Secret, Lows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

• The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

• If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Harbors, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

• Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Lying, World

  Essays "Spiritual Laws" (1841)

• 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

  God, Sitting, Anarchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.17, Harvard University Press

• In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Jesus, Brother

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

• The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Sweet, Men

  Address in Divinity College, Cambridge, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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