Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”
topic: Perfect, Elements, Taught, Stingy, Personal Happiness