James Martineau Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

James Martineau


Grief is only the memory of widowed affection.	1
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at all without them.	2
The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light.	3
We do not believe immortality because we have proved it, but we for ever try to prove it because we believe it.	4
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time and its dome of ages becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.	5