Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

We can thank God for everything good, and all the rest we don't comprehend yet.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.