Quote Explained: The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

We can neither change nor overpower God’s eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

Theologian and philosopher

· England

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

Every man’s highest, nameless though it be, is his ‘living God’.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

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We should count time by heart-throbs.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau

Theologian and philosopher

· England

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

We can neither change nor overpower God’s eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Every man’s highest, nameless though it be, is his ‘living God’.

We should count time by heart-throbs.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

I’m interested in stories about human beings. I don’t care where or when they are set.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

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