J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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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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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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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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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 may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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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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If you want learning, you must work for it.
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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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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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Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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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 great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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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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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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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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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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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 is the little one thinking about?