The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, And lives with God. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.... They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead man hopes genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)