Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What God hath wrought?

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

In the annals of human history the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent on the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and counter play of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of the all-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will.

If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

God finds himself by creating.

The will of God prevails.

I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do. I know how to write songs. I know how to write things that relate to my heart. I feel that I talk about God in every song, in everything I do - all of it! I really do not know how to respond. I do not relate to that.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

A working artist is a playing artist.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.