--- title: "4 Bill Hopkins Quotes" description: "Bill Hopkins has 4 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/bill-hopkins-71582_character_we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions_247479.jpg" --- # Bill Hopkins **4** quotes in **12** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Bill Hopkins > [“We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man’s triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions-with-christian-social-virtues/) Bill Hopkins [Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/bill-hopkins-71582_character_we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions_247479.jpg) > [“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of-human-greatness-is-the-moment/) Bill Hopkins [Greatness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greatness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/bill-hopkins-71582_leap_the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of_1260821.jpg) > [“Divorce a man from purpose and his life becomes meaningless, no better than an animal’s. The trouble is that most purposes are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/divorce-a-man-from-purpose-and-his-life-becomes-meaningless-no-better/) Bill Hopkins [Faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2db/bill-hopkins-71582_faith_divorce-a-man-from-purpose-and-his-life_1306844.jpg) > [“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/we-are-suffering-all-of-us-because-of-the-emptiness-that-surrounds-us/) Bill Hopkins [Emptiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emptiness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/bill-hopkins-71582_emptiness_we-are-suffering-all-of-us-because-of-th_3019097.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-hopkins/#itemlist", "name": "Bill Hopkins Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man’s triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Hopkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions-with-christian-social-virtues/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/bill-hopkins-71582_character_we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions_247479.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/bill-hopkins-71582_character_we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions_247479.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/bill-hopkins-71582_character_we-have-replaced-the-religious-passions_247479.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man’s triumph in terms…” — Bill Hopkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness of the material from which we have to mould it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Hopkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of-human-greatness-is-the-moment/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/bill-hopkins-71582_leap_the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of_1260821.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/bill-hopkins-71582_leap_the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of_1260821.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/bill-hopkins-71582_leap_the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of_1260821.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the…” — Bill Hopkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Divorce a man from purpose and his life becomes meaningless, no better than an animal’s. 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