James Martineau Quotes about Heart

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Heart, Pride, Rooms

James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

James Martineau

Life And Love, Heart, Grieving

We should count time by heart-throbs.

James Martineau

Time, Heart, Should

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.

James Martineau

Dream, Heart, Long

James Martineau (1858). “Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses”, p.306

Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

James Martineau

Home, Heart, Humble

James Martineau (1844). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses”, p.37

However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

James Martineau

Summer, Fall, Heart

James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

James Martineau

Jesus, Heart, Invisible Hand

James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

James Martineau Quotes about Heart

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