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There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
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There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.
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Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.
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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 mind and defective wisdom.
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It was in His parting sorrow — that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.
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To Him let us but cleave in all our strife; and the Tempter will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tranquilizing peace of God will never be far from us.
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James Martineau
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Born:
April 21, 1805
Died:
January 11, 1900
(aged 94)
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James Martineau was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.
Known for:
Endeavours after the Christian life (1843)
Types of ethical theory (1885)
The seat of authority in religion (1890)
Endeavors after the Christian life (1844)
A Study of Spinoza (1882)
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