Ralph Waldo Emerson on God

“When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.”

“When we consider what is our thought of God we find that it is our own soul stripped of all inferiority and carried out to perfection.”

“Man thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar’s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men’s transcripts of their readings.”

“The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live the future as described to him but to live the real future to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”

“By going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. He will come to hear God speak as audibly through his own lips as ever He did by the mouth of Moses or Isaiah or Milton.”