Quotes about Spirituality
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All writing comes by the grace of God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson