James Martineau, Theologian and Teacher: A Study of His Life and Thought

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P. Green, 1905 - 596 halaman
 

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Halaman 128 - 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.
Halaman 127 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Halaman 403 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached...
Halaman 421 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Halaman 268 - Your discrowned human nature. Look on me ! As I shall be uplifted on a cross In darkness of eclipse and anguish dread, So shall I lift up in my pierced hands, Not into dark, but light — not unto death, But life — beyond the reach of guilt and grief, The whole Creation.
Halaman 127 - The difference, and the only difference, is this ; that, in the one case, we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world ; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come.
Halaman 65 - Watch ye for ye know not the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh an impressive solemn discourse — [March] 14 Tuesday Evening [1848] Quite unwell last evening but about.
Halaman 125 - Departing from the particular, we admit, that we can never, in our highest generalizations, rise above the finite ; that our knowledge, whether of mind or matter, can be nothing more than a knowledge of the relative manifestations of an existence, which in itself it is our highest wisdom to recognize as beyond the reach of philosophy — in the language of St. Austin— " cognoscendo ignorari^ et ignorando cognosci.
Halaman 278 - Unitarian ; you, who will meet here from week to week, are doubtless Unitarian too ; but the society of worshippers, of which we are only the living members, and the Church erected here, of which we shall be but transient tenants, these are not to be defined as Unitarian.
Halaman 34 - He was above ambition, incapable of pretence, eager to see things as they are, and assured that, through the darkness that sometimes enfolds them, the only guide is the unswerving love of truth ; and, accepting life for service, not for sway, he never measured his sphere to see whether it was small or great, but deemed it enough to bear his witness where he stood, and help, as he might, the companions of his way.

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