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In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
— John Owen
If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.
— Erwin McManus
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The student is to read history actively not passively.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most
— Ralph Waldo Emerson