Quotes by James Martineau

James Martineau

A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.

Light

Secret Places

Strong

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

Creative

Issues

Silence

All that is noble in the world’s past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Mind

Noble

Past

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

Moments

Spirit

Time

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Delight

Grief

Memories

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Grief

Memories

Sympathy

However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

Fall

Heart

Summer

Human character is never found “to enter into its glory,” except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

Battle

Character

Temptation

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart….The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence….When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love’s generous joy.

Grieving

Heart

Life And Love

If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

Looks

Men

Voice

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Christ

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Dream

Fall

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Grief

Grieving

Hands

Heart

Home

Humble

Incarnation

Indulge In

Invisible Hand

Issues

Jesus

Life

Life And Love

Light

Looks

Meanness

Memories

Men

Mind

Moments

Moral

Morality

Morning

Noble

Past

Poor

Possibility

Power

Prayer

Priests

Reality

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Quotes by James Martineau

James Martineau

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

All that is noble in the world’s past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Human character is never found “to enter into its glory,” except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart….The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence….When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love’s generous joy.

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