English - Philosopher | April 21, 1805 - January 11, 1900
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
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
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Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
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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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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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