Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. James Martineau More Quotes by James Martineau More Quotes From James Martineau 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 bishopspriestschildren There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. James Martineau possibilitypoorlife There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. James Martineau prideheartrooms The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence. James Martineau truthsleeplife We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented. James Martineau evilmayinspirational 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 inspirationdoubtmen All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. James Martineau issuessilencecreative 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 mindfeelingsreality The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. James Martineau moralitymoralcommunity 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 life-and-loveheartgrieving We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will. James Martineau faithfulremembrancehands We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. James Martineau suffragemeannessselfishness If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations. James Martineau indulge-inselfdream 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 religiousmindhands When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him. James Martineau visits-yousoulblessed 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. James Martineau noblemindpast The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. James Martineau prayerheavenlooks Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'. James Martineau namelessevery-manmen God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours. James Martineau momentsspirittime 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. James Martineau dreamheartlong
