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> [Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/christianity-is-the-greatest-civilizing-moulding-uplifting-power-on/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

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## More by Mark Hopkins

> [Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/remove-from-the-history-of-the-past-all-those-actions-which-have/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/the-very-act-of-faith-by-which-we-receive-christ-is-an-act-of-the/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/nothing-but-the-cross-of-christ-can-so-startle-the-spiritual-nature/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/the-patriarchal-the-jewish-and-the-christian-dispensations-are/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/we-are-to-regard-the-mind-not-as-a-piece-of-iron-to-be-laid-upon-the/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/the-essential-elements-of-giving-are-power-and-love-activity-and/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/all-mental-discipline-and-symmetrical-growth-are-from-activity-of-the/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/language-is-the-picture-and-counterpart-of-thought/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/man-has-wants-deeper-than-can-be-supplied-by-wealth-or-nature-or/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/religion-without-morality-is-a-superstition-and-a-curse-and-morality/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/everywhere-the-tendency-has-been-to-separate-religion-from-morality/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/certainly-no-revolution-that-has-ever-taken-place-in-society-can-be/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/in-christ-we-see-the-strength-of-achievement-and-the-strength-of/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/christianity-alone-inspires-and-guides-progress-for-the-progress-of/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

> [The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/the-strength-that-we-want-is-not-a-brute-unregulated-strength-the/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

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