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James Martineau on Religion

d. 1900 England

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To rely on intellectual methods for the direct advance of devout thought is to mistake philosophy for religion… Who does not know, out of his own heart, that he never was reasoned into holy wonder, love, or reverence? and who can fail to observe that there is no fixed proportion between force of understanding and clearness or depth of religion?

Hours of Thoughts on Sacred Things Vol. 2 (1879)

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