No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His Master." There may be weeping that shall endure for a night, but joy shall… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
