"Religion is no more possible without prayer than……" — James Martineau
"Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere."
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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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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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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 Atmosphere Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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