Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Jesus Christ

• 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 idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Facts, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

• The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Jesus, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.

• There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

• There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Influence, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Greatness

• Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Soul, Conquer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.25

• The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Nature, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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