I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
Harriet MartineauBut is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet MartineauKeep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Harriet MartineauThere is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
Harriet Martineau