Henry Martyn Quotes

MARTYN, Henry Quotes

(1781-1812), English missionary and orientalist

Art

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. —I have either received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind, and made it susceptible of new impressions from the sublime and beautiful.—O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God by their being a source of pride!