Mark Hopkins Quotes

United States, Investor
September 1, 1813 – March, 29, 1878.

Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 – March 29, 1878) was one of four principal investors who had agreed to fund Theodore D. Judah's idea of building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, CA to Promontory, Utah. They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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- Power
- Uplifting

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

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- God
- Prayer
- Mercy
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

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- Power
- High
- Giving
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

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- Society
- Words
- Taken