James Martineau Quotes

If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

James Martineau

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Need

• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Question

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Pact

• I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Country

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • God
  • Father

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Great
  • Men
  • High

• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Future
  • Serious
  • Child

• Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Me
  • Government
  • Purpose

• As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Want
  • Present
  • Welcome

• I've always enjoyed shopping and loved fashion, but my interest as an entrepreneur was definitely more about the opportunities I saw to change the future of retail. My sister was a buyer in New York, and she knew my body and my style, and she could find me things I loved. I thought, 'What if everybody had access to this kind of experience?'

  

  Katrina Lake
  • She
  • Experience
  • Future

• Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth Is
  • Nonviolence

• I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.

  

  Cold Cave
  • Forever
  • Interest
  • Shows

• If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

  

  James Martineau
  • God
  • Men
  • Future