Essentials Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mark Hopkins

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the…

— Mark Hopkins

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

— Mark Hopkins

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— 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…

— Mark Hopkins

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

— 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…

— 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…

— Mark Hopkins