James Martineau Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

  James Martineau

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.64

• It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Morning, Prayer

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

• Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

  James Martineau

  Memories, Grief, Delight

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