Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Spirituality

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

• The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Pain, Stewardship

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Foundation

• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

• Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bible, Spiritual, Reading

• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Gardening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Spirituality

• We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Spiritual, Long

• Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

• Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Рипол Классик

• Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Leadership, Causes

• In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Eye, Agreement

  "Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

• That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Libertarian, Spirituality, Sin

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.488, Library of America

• Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Weather, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.25, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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