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James Martineau

James Martineau (/ˈmɑːrtənˌoʊ/; 21 April 1805 – 11 January 1900) was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.

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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, Declare, Enter, Ordeal, Temptation

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

Creative, Ere, Gathers, Issues, Silence

God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, which correspond to the physical element in us, do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

Agency, Element, God, Law, Nature

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Grief, Memories, Memory, Sympathy, Widowed

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

Time, Spirit, Moments, Thousands, Silent, Spirits

To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.

Angel, Cleave, Peace, Sacrifice, Sorrow, Unto

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Gentle, Heart, Pride, Room, Rooms, Universe

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Community, Index, Moral, Morality, Morals

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

History, Lost, Mind, Minds, Noble, Past

There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.

Christian, Power, Baptized In, Sphere, Surer, Command

We should count time by heart-throbs.

Count, Heart, Should, Time

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

Bishops, Child, Children, Frock, Match, Priests

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.

Doubt, Inspiration, Men, Mind, Negligence, Towards

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

Appearance, Feeling, Feelings, Mind, Reality, Trust

The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

Nature, Sacrifice, Self, Sorrows, Vain, Voice

When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.

Blessed, Fling, Soul, Strength, Visits You

Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.

Bereavement, Constant, God, Heaven, Hour, Prayer

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

Divine, Human, Life, Poor, Possibility

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, Sad, Summer, Walks

This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

Anguish, Heart, Invisible Hand, Jesus, Soul, Surrender

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