Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau
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  1. 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.

  2. Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.

  3. 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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