 Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 108by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Farrelly - 2005 - 330 pages
...all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world. He said in the jubilee of this sublime emotion, 'I am divine.'"42 Eventually Emerson left even this position and... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1967 - 572 pages
...all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth...World. He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, 'lam divine. Through me God acts; through me, speaks. Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when... | |
 | Brian Yothers - 2007 - 168 pages
...history, [Jesus] estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world" (54). Several lines later he reveals the reason that, not despite but because of his reverence for... | |
 | William E. Cain - 2000 - 298 pages
...1838), [Jesus] estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth...see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think." (Essays and Lectures, 80) Parker, in 'A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity" (19... | |
 | 1893 - 884 pages
...who was true to what is in you and in me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man. He said, in his jubilee of sublime emotion, I am divine. Through me...; through me, speaks. Would you see God, see me." How one delights to quote Emerson! I wish our young people who are forming clubs for the study of Emerson... | |
 | 1903 - 964 pages
...all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates Himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of His world." Yet it is only in "a jubilee of sublime emotion " that Jesus can say, "I am divine. Through me God... | |
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