J. G. Holland Quotes
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If you want learning, you must work for it.
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My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.
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Joys divided are increased.
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There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
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What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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What is the little one thinking about?
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No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.