5 Quotes & Sayings By James Martineau

James Martineau was born in New York City on June 29, 1856. In 1879 he began a forty-five year career as a writer for the New York Sun. His best known book is The Untold History of the United States, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is now in its twenty-second printing.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is...
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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