Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Worship

• The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Character, Men

• And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Loss, Worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

• The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Self, Saint

• Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Past, Parent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

• Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Heart, Cake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

• I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confusion, Worship, Painful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.106, Modern Library

• I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essentials, Body, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1906). “Miscellanies”

• I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Order, Age, Ministry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

• Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Joy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

• It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Becoming, Worship

• The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Nature, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times”, p.53

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