James Martineau Quotes

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



Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

James Martineau



Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau



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

James Martineau



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



The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

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