 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
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl - 1916 - 618 pages
...74 THE ARTIST: PILOT OR PARASITE? EMERSON, the incarnation of common-sense and *— idealism, said: "Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life...point of view ; it is the soliloquy of a beholding and a jubilant soul." From that point of view there are only two human energies worthy of the reverence... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1916 - 522 pages
...specific gifts or blessings. That, to his mind, would be impudence, and insult to law and Lawgiver. " Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious." " Men's prayers are a disease of the will, as their creeds are a disease of the intellect." Yet prayer... | |
 | Roy Holland Seward - 1917 - 40 pages
...physical organism as a substanceless shadow possessing neither reality nor power. Emerson says that prayer is the "contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view." From this it follows, logically and scientifically, that the spiritual fact must be the highest point... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — anything less than all good — is vicious. Prayer is that contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding... | |
 | William Paterson Paterson, David Russell - 1920 - 596 pages
...realised this truth, will make the subject clear enough: " Prayer that craves a particular commodity, or anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is...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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and 318 THE REFLECTIVE ESSAY 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 - 1921 - 584 pages
...supernatural, and mediatorial an(J 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 #sa means to effect a private end, is... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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 - 1924 - 152 pages
...throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men. — .Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life...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,... | |
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