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James Martineau Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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 holding moral relations with mankind.
         



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



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



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



We should count time by heart-throbs.

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.

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.

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.

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.



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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.





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