Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Salvation

• Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Salvation, Bundles

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

• Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.129, Harvard University Press

• The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heaven, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

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