Mark Hopkins Quotes

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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 Christ.
• But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own…
• Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
• Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
• Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
• Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
• Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals…
• Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.
• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as…
• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high…
• No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

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