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.
James Martineau
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere
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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.
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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
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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.
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Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
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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.
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