Top 24 James Martineau Quotes
#1. Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
James Martineau
#2. We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
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#3. All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, Thou art my hiding-place.
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#4. Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, which correspond to the physical element in us, do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.
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#10. There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.
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#11. High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.
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#12. 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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#13. All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
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#17. I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart ... The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence ... When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.
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#18. The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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#20. 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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#21. We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
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#22. The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
James Martineau
#23. Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.
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#24. 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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