Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

Patience is God's nature.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."