Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'. — James Martineau Every man Copy Share Image
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. — James Martineau Christ 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 Belief 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 Hours 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 Contempt 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… — James Martineau Bishops Copy Share Image
Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the… — James Martineau Appearance 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 History Copy Share Image
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. — James Martineau Creative Copy Share Image
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all… — James Martineau Accepting Copy Share Image
It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for… — James Martineau Affection Copy Share Image
All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies… — James Martineau Art Copy Share Image
If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices… — James Martineau Appeals 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;… — James Martineau Darkness 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… — James Martineau Absence Copy Share Image
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to… — James Martineau Agency Copy Share Image
To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more;… — James Martineau Angel Copy Share Image
A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it… — James Martineau Almighty 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 Accounts Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of… — James Martineau Cease Copy Share Image
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. — James Martineau Character Copy Share Image
We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented. — James Martineau Evil Copy Share Image
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. — James Martineau Divine Copy Share Image
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner,… — James Martineau History Copy Share Image
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. — James Martineau Contradiction Copy Share Image
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. — James Martineau Eternal Copy Share Image
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. — James Martineau Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant… — James Martineau Absence Copy Share Image
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round… — James Martineau Age Copy Share Image
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a… — James Martineau Doubt Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Affliction Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Association Copy Share Image
High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they… — James Martineau Break Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Abandonment Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Baptized Copy Share Image
If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not;… — James Martineau Blind 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 Awful Copy Share Image
However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human… — James Martineau Age Copy Share Image
