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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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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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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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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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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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
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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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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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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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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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It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
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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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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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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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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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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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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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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.