J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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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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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 great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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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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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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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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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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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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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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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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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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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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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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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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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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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.