Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson