"Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is……" — James Martineau
"Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'."
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16 Quotes by James Martineau
James Martineau has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
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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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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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More God Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
— Aristotle
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
— Karen Armstrong
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
— Karen Armstrong
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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is…
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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