The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within,… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature. — 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
