James Martineau Quotes

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• 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 their…
• Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
• The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around…
• All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
• The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow…
• Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
• All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
• The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
• The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
• There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
• Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
• God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
• We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
• There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.
• There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and reverent heart.

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