 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 - 1875 - 584 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 is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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 is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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 is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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 cnd is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 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 is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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 is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — anything...point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding aud jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 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... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — anything...good — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 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 is... | |
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