"All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together……" — James Martineau
"All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might."
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James Martineau
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16 Quotes by James Martineau
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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…
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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and…
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The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and…
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and…
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Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are…
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice…
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There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a…
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking…
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