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 Teachers of Emerson - Página 277por John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 323 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1908 - 812 páginas
...Providence assigns to us, and that true prayer is no selfish petition. Prayer, he profoundly defines as " the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. The prayer of the farmer, kneeling on his field to weed it ; the prayer of the rower kneeling with... | |
| Prosser Hall Frye - 1908 - 334 páginas
...minds. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. To be great is to be misunderstood. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. \ In this way his essays have become, as it were, a collection of centres of force or influence, so... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 páginas
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the...good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man... | |
| 1909 - 540 páginas
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the...But prayer as a. means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 páginas
...than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest 5 point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding...good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 páginas
...Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — anything less than all good, — is s vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the...effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes .dualism1 and not unity in nature and con10 sciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 páginas
...Reliance. PRAYER that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. Self Reliance. THE relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek... | |
| Abel Leighton Allen - 1914 - 306 páginas
...says, "Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious." "Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the...is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good." "Be still and know that I am God" is the voice of the soul in the true attitude of prayer. Goethe speaks... | |
| Henry Harrison Brown - 1914 - 234 páginas
...FRANCISCO, CAL. • n Vision or Co-dap ft A SERIES OF ESSAYS - BY HENRY HARRISON BROWN SOUL CULTURIST Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It it- a soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of 3«< irmju.iciiiK his \7ork good.... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 páginas
...Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — anything less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the...theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all... | |
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