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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

— James Martineau

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There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Hours of Thought on Sacred Things (1879)

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

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

Hours of Thought on Sacred Things (1879)

God loves our mercy to one another; but not upon conditions at variance with sanctity to Him.

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

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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