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01Undated

The soul occupied with great ideas, best performs small duties.

James Martineau / quote

02Undated

Of nothing may we be more sure than this, that if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no other. Our heaven and our Almighty Father are there or nowhere.

James Martineau / quote

03Undated

What reason have we to think any other station in the universe more sanctifying than our own? There is none, so far as we can tell, under the more immediate touch of God, none whence sublimer deeps are open to adoration, none murmuring with the whisper of more thrilling affections or ennobled as the theater of more glorious duties. Those to whom the earth is not consecrated will find their heaven profane.

James Martineau / quote

04Undated

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 / quote

05Undated

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

James Martineau / quote

06Undated

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 / quote

07Undated

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau / quote