James Martineau Quotes

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

James Martineau

#2. One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

Christiaan Huygens

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

James Martineau

#4. 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.

James Martineau

#5. At once they were absolutely silenced, for money talks in an eloquent voice. Deliberately

Max Brand

#6. Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.

Leonard Jacobson

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

James Martineau

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

James Martineau

#9. 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.

James Martineau

#10. Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back!

Charles Dickens

#11. My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it's ever evolving. Generally I'm drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.

Daphne Guinness

#12. Our laws must protect victims.

Theresa May

#13. Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau

#14. 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.

James Martineau

#15. I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Alice Walker

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

James Martineau

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

James Martineau

#18. 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.

James Martineau

#19. 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.

James Martineau

#20. 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.

James Martineau

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

James Martineau

#22. In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella' - can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

H.R. Giger

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

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#24. 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.

James Martineau

#25. All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

Giada De Laurentiis

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

James Martineau

#27. The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience.

Richard Wright

#28. 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.

James Martineau

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

James Martineau

#30. Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

John Lennon

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

James Martineau

#32. 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.

James Martineau

#33. There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

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

James Martineau

#35. We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

Hillary Clinton

#36. 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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#37. We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

Mary E. DeMuth

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

James Martineau