Religion Quotes by Mark Hopkins

8 Religion quotes by Mark Hopkins

Mark Hopkins’s philosophical reflections on religion are distilled into eight short statements, each echoing his thoughtful inquiry. This short collection offers a quick entry into his intellectual perspective.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a…

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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes…

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Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in…

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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…

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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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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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In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody…

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Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding…

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The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want…

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