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James Martineau
English
Philosopher
About the author
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,
English
Philosopher
#Will
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau,
English
Philosopher
#Language
#Religion
#Music
#Poetry
#Prayer
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
James Martineau,
English
Philosopher
#Memory
#Grief
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
James Martineau,
English
Philosopher
#God
#Man
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,
English
Philosopher
#God
#Will
#Belief
#Universe
#Mind
#Religion
#Mankind
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
James Martineau,
English
Philosopher
#God
#Christ
#Man
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,
English
Philosopher
#World
#Past
#History