Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul… — 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
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… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
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… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
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
