Ralph Waldo Emerson Spiritual Quotes — Page 17

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.”

Giving Sea Oxen

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.”

Men Years Children

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Spiritual

“The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.”

Nature Ministry

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“There is no God dare wrong a worm.”

Dare Worms

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Spiritual

“I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.”

Men Heart Integrity

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“If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!”

Mood Sincerity Prophet

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“I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.”

Believe Religious God

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“A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.”

Order Air Blow

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“...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.”

Return Woods Village

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“A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.”

Men Self Humility

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“Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.”

Pain Fear Superficial

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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.”

Men Beautiful Miracle

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Ralph Waldo Emerson — Spiritual Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes