The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and reverent heart. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
