Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Belief & Faith (18 Quotes)

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.... Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

In the woods we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space all mean egotism vanishes.... The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

For me, commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Our first mistake is the belief that circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.