--- title: "1 Sin Shame Quotes By J. G. Holland" description: "1 Sin Shame quotes by J. G. Holland. Plus more from J. G. Holland and more Sin Shame sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/j-g-holland-3221_certain_we-often-wonder-that-certain-men-and-wom_2020097.jpg" --- > [We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/we-often-wonder-that-certain-men-and-women-are-left-by-god-to-the/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/j-g-holland-3221_certain_we-often-wonder-that-certain-men-and-wom_2020097.jpg) ## More by J. G. Holland > [That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/that-which-grows-fast-withers-as-rapidly-that-which-grows-slow-endures/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/the-faculty-of-self-help-is-that-which-distinguished-man-from-animals/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/poet-forger-of-ideals-dreamer-among-the-possibilities-of-life-prophet/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/in-my-judgment-a-great-mistake-has-been-made-by-well-meaning-and/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/i-stand-by-my-kind-and-i-thank-god-for-the-temptations-that-have/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/no-man-ever-feels-the-restraint-of-law-so-long-as-he-remains-within/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/all-who-become-men-of-power-reach-their-estate-by-the-same-self/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/preceptive-wisdom-that-has-not-been-vivified-by-life-has-in-itself-no/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/scholarship-save-by-accident-is-never-the-measure-of-a-man-s-power/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/god-gives-every-bird-its-food-but-he-does-not-throw-it-into-its-nest-j/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [Humanity is constitutionally lazy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/humanity-is-constitutionally-lazy/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [It is the life in literature that acts upon life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/it-is-the-life-in-literature-that-acts-upon-life/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/a-fortune-won-in-a-day-is-lost-in-a-day-a-fortune-won-slowly-and/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/i-account-the-office-of-benefactor-or-almoner-to-which-god-appoints/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) > [Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/who-never-walks-save-where-he-sees-men-s-tracks-makes-no-discoveries/) [J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sin-shame/j-g-holland/#itemlist", "name": "1 Sin Shame Quotes By J. G. 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