James Martineau: A Biography and StudyLittle, Brown & Company, 1901 - 459 pages |
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Page 361 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 265 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Page 401 - From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Page 186 - I know That Love makes all things equal: I have heard By mine own heart this joyous truth averred: The spirit of the worm beneath the sod In love and worship, blends itself with God.
Page 265 - PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh ; and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead...
Page 402 - Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
Page 273 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem ; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes ; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles : 34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him ; and the third day he shall rise again.
Page 265 - And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Page 402 - LOVE my God, but with no love of mine, For I have none to give ; I love Thee, Lord, but all the love is Thine, For by Thy life I live. I am as nothing, and rejoice to be Emptied, and lost, and swallowed up in Thee.
Page 146 - In virtue of the close affinity, perhaps ultimate identity, of Religion and Poetry, preaching is essentially A lyric expression of the soul, an utterance of meditation in sorrow, hope, love, and joy, from a representative of the human heart in its divine relations. In proportion as we quit this view, and prominently introduce the idea of a preceptive and monitory function, we retreat from the true prophetic interpretation of the office back into the old sacerdotal : — or (what is not perhaps so...