Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'