Hours Quote by James Martineau

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

— James Martineau

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

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

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

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

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

— James Martineau

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

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

— James Martineau

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

— James Martineau

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

— James Martineau

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and reverent heart.

— James Martineau

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid…

— James Martineau