The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSuccess goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFreedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson