James Martineau Quotes

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

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

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

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

We should count time by heart-throbs.

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.

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.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

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

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

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

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

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

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.

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

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