J. G. Holland Quotes
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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
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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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Joys divided are increased.
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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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To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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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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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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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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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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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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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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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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How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
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What is the little one thinking about?
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.