We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. — James Martineau Eternal 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
We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented. — James Martineau Evil 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
