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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Courage, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Lying, World
Essays "Spiritual Laws" (1841)

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Savages, Desert

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Brother, Doors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.34, Coyote Canyon Press

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?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Sweet, Numbers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.174, Penguin

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Nature, Glory

There is a crack in everything God has made

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Cracks, Made
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.62

A man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Art, Philosophy
Nature ch. 8 (1836).

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Running, Dream
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Harbors, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Names, Lasts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.40, Harvard University Press

I am a part and parcel of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Parcel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.30, Penguin

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Pay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Running, Desert
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.17, Harvard University Press

To Be is to live with God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Beautiful, God
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.202, Harvard University Press

The dice of God are always loaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Luck, Dice
1841 Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Jesus, Brother
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Play, Miracle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Believe, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Veils, Dare
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.90, Harvard University Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Religious, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Heart, Deeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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