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
Mind, Mankind, Will, Relations
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
- James Martineau
Memory, Sympathy, Only, Grief
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
- James Martineau
True, Christ, Universally, Incarnation
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
- James Martineau
Living, His, Though, Highest
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
Will, More, Bishop, Priest
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
History, Great, Past, Past History
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
- James Martineau
Music, Prayer, More, Atmosphere
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