J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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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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Joys divided are increased.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
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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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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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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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What is the little one thinking about?
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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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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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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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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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.