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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Greatness, Men

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, God, Angel
"Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Moss, Doctrine
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Faith, Religious
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Heart, Fire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Knowledge, Compromise
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.29, Harvard University Press

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Men, Events
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Rose, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Mean, Years
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.56, Penguin

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, God, Bystanders
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Art, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Country, Past
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.60, Harvard University Press

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Shadow, All Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Men, Holy Days
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1528, Delphi Classics

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Sun, Pool
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.342

Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Book, Simple
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.176, Harvard University Press

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Brother, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Power, Ends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.63, Penguin

The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Sweet, Men
Address in Divinity College, Cambridge, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.110, Coyote Canyon Press

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Party, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Spiritual, Real
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Faith, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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