Ralph Waldo Emerson — Spiritual Quotes

210 quotes · Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.”

World Dream Divinity

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.”

Attitude Problem Answers

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Spiritual

“But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.”

Heart Religious

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Spiritual

“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.”

Prayer Commodity

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Spiritual

“That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.”

Soul Jesus Hero

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Spiritual

“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”

Numbers God Sweet

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Spiritual

“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.”

Brother Doors God

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Spiritual

“Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.”

Religious Nature Religion

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Spiritual

“I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”

Moments Events Higher

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Spiritual

“The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.”

Nature Change History

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Spiritual

“Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.”

Men Imagination Veils

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Spiritual

“As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.”

Men Prayer Action

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