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The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when ... the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.
— Harriet Martineau
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
— Harriet Martineau
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
— Harriet Martineau
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
— Harriet Martineau
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
— Harriet Martineau
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.
— Harriet Martineau
It is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
— Harriet Martineau
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
— Harriet Martineau
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
— Harriet Martineau
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.
— Harriet Martineau
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
— Harriet Martineau
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
— Harriet Martineau
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
— Harriet Martineau
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
— Harriet Martineau
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
— Harriet Martineau
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
— Harriet Martineau
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
— Harriet Martineau
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
— James Martineau
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
— James Martineau
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
— Harriet Martineau
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
— James Martineau
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
— Harriet Martineau
I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.
— Harriet Martineau
It matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.
— Harriet Martineau
Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.
— Harriet Martineau
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[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.
— Harriet Martineau
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
— James Martineau
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
— Harriet Martineau
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
We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
— James Martineau
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
— Harriet Martineau
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
— James Martineau
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
— Harriet Martineau
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
— Harriet Martineau
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
— James Martineau
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
— James Martineau
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
— James Martineau
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
— Harriet Martineau
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
— Harriet Martineau
Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
— Harriet Martineau
I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ...
— Harriet Martineau
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ...
— Harriet Martineau
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.
— Harriet Martineau
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
— Harriet Martineau
It is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.
— Harriet Martineau
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.
— James Martineau
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
— James Martineau
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.
— Harriet Martineau
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
— James Martineau
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
— Harriet Martineau
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
— James Martineau
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land
— Harriet Martineau
I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.
— Harriet Martineau
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
— James Martineau
Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
— Harriet Martineau
I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible ...
— Harriet Martineau
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties ...
— Harriet Martineau
It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.
— Harriet Martineau