J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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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 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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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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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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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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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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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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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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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.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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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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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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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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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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.