James Martineau Quotes
An English philosopher.
(1805 - 1900)
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A ritual religion is generally light and gay, not serious in its spirit; all religions being so, which cast responsibility into outward observances.
[Religion]
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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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All the grand agencies which the progress of mankind evolves are the aggregate result of countless wills, each of which, thinking merely of its own end. and perhaps fully gaining it, is at the same time enlisted by Providence in the secret service of the world.
[Progress]
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Christianity is the good man's text; his life is the illustration. How admirable is that religion, which, while it seems to have in view only the felicity of another world, is at the same time the highest happiness of this.
[Religion]
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Every fiction that has ever laid strong hold on human belief is the mistaken image of some great truth.
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Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
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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.
[Tears]
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It is surprising how practical duty enriches the fancy and the heart, and action clears and deepens the affections.
[Duty]
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Learn what a people glory in, and you may learn much of both the theory and practice of their morals.
[Morality]
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.
[Prayer]
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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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The health of a community, is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
[Morality]
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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The moral progression of a people can scarcely begin till they are independent.
[Independence]
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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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We do not believe in immortality because we have proved it, but, we forever try to prove it because we believe it.
[Immortality]
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What science calls the unity and uniformity of nature, truth calls the fidelity of God.
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Where social improvements originate with the clergy, and where they bear a just share of the toil, the condition of morals and manners cannot be very much depressed.
[Morality]
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