 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.  The Value of Cheerfulness - Page 70edited by - 1904 - 194 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, —is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the Spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer, as a means to effect a private end,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...certainly misunderstood by thousands as it is by ourselves — if we have miscoastrued its meaning: — "Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious." The iastance which occurred to us, as condemned in this assertion, is the historical event recorded... | |
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