Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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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.James Martineau
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
James Martineau
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep to be exposed to darkness and the light to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of tradethis is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.
James Martineau
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours
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
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