A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
