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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
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.James Martineau
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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.James Martineau
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.James Martineau