Quotes by 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.
• Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
• Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
• 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.
• The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
• All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.