J. G. Holland Quotes
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.