Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

All but God is changing day by day.

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.

I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

Its name-what passes not away.

I guess some things never change.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.