Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Theology

• Men are better than this theology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Theology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

• The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Theology, Discourse, Subjects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

• The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Perception, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

• I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moral, Rhetoric, Theology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2730, Delphi Classics

• Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Savages, Village

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

• I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Men, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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