6 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Faith

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on faith

12. Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

27. I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

32. The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.

161. I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure?

223. Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.

296. Salvation would not be a question of accepting a creed, but of acquiring insight.