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.”

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”

“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.”

“The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.”

“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.”

“Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.”

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

“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.”