Liberty Quotes by Mark Hopkins

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Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and…

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Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…

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The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent…

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Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities…

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The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way…

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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor…

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

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

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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to…

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

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Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition…

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Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus…

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