 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 - 1909 - 496 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,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.' . . . ' We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God,' and 'the sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations... | |
 | William Allingham - 1912 - 186 pages
...eloquence the doctrine which is the real root of Christianity — that the Divinity descends into man. " We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." The Essay on Prudence is solid and luminous as a precious stone. Emerson's writings have already achieved... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere"; "the background of our being, in which they lie"; "we lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature." There are the marks of the severer Emerson, the baffling paradoxes such as the abrogation of time,... | |
 | 1916 - 350 pages
...Not, It is beautiful, but He is beautiful. I know Him, I love Him. EP POWELL As there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. . . . Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament,... | |
 | George Rowland Dodson - 1917 - 364 pages
...beauty." "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,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God." The most explicit statement is perhaps that given in the "Method of Nature."... | |
 | Louis William Rogers - 1917 - 234 pages
...immanence of God is unmistakable in both his prose and poetry. "There is no bar or wall," he says, "in the soul where man, the effect, ceases and God, the Cause, begins." Still more explicitly he puts it: The realms of being to no other bow; Not only all are Thine, but... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...soul. The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God. 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 ceases and God begins. Man is conscious of a universal soul within his individual life, wherein, as... | |
 | Ernest Charles Wilson - 1920 - 132 pages
...is the ultimate; a thought of God clothed in material vesture." — Andrew Jackson Davis. "There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. Cause and effect are two sides of one fact." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. —15II. THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE... | |
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