James Martineau Short Quotes

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

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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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We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

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

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

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

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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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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

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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 never lost.

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God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

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The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

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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 change.

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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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When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

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