Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth,… — 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… — 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