J. G. Holland Quotes
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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Joys divided are increased.
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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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Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.
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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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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 temple of art is built in words.
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Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
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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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What is the little one thinking about?
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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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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
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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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God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
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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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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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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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Ideals are the world's masters.
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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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If you want learning, you must work for it.
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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.