 God comes to see us without bell:" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie...  Essays: First Series - Page 216by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell; " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures ao man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell ; " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures Ho man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell ; " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures ao man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1884 - 236 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell'; that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." (Essays, First Series, p. 216.) The importance of finding this higher self, and developing it into... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1885 - 258 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell;' that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." (" Essays," First Series, p. 216.) The importance of finding this higher self, and developing it into... | |
 | Charles Mason Barrows - 1887 - 262 pages
...circumstance. As there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect,...deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. We perceive justice, love, freedom, power; but they are above us, they flow into us. Truth and virtue... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...him. There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." Emerson's point of view, though familiar to students of philosophy, is strange to the popular understanding,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...having a subjective or relative existence — relative to that aforesaid Unknown Center of him. There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." Emerson's point... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - 1888 - 232 pages
...A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell ' — that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...where man the effect ceases and God the cause begins." Thus he gave us, and thus we must explain Jesus' great doctrine of the universal Fatherhood of God.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...man, A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell : " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begias. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all... | |
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