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RALPH WALDO
EMERSON
“How dear, how soothing
to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the
scars of our mistakes and disappointments!
When we
have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then
may God fire the heart with His presence.”
(Emerson,
74)
“If
he (man) would know what the great God speaketh, he must ‘go into his closet
and shut the door,’ as Jesus said.”
(Ibid, 74)
“Our
globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts.”
(Ibid, 75)
“It
now shows itself ethical and practical. We learn that God IS;
that He is
in me; and that all things are shadows of him.”
(Ibid, 77)
“In
God every end is converted into a new means.”
(Ibid,
319)
“As a
plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished
by unfailing fountains and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power.”
(Ibid,
325)
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