Quote

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

J. G. Holland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. G. Holland
Without
Influence
Slightest
Whole
Age
Schemes
Mind
Upon
Aim
Men
Less
Table
Christian
Tables
Multiplication
Truth
Effect
Boyhood
Character
Carry
Scheme
May
Effects
Aims

More quotes by J. G. Holland

Image
In the homes of America are born the children of America and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
J. G. Holland
Image
Calmness is the cradle of power.
J. G. Holland
Image
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
J. G. Holland
Image
So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
J. G. Holland
Image
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
J. G. Holland
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, of his constitution.
J. G. Holland
Image
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
J. G. Holland
Image
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes for God himself sits behind them.
J. G. Holland
Image
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J. G. Holland
Image
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
J. G. Holland
Image
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
J. G. Holland
Image
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
Image
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
J. G. Holland
Image
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
J. G. Holland
Image
Ideals are the world's masters.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
J. G. Holland
Image
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J. G. Holland
Image
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
J. G. Holland
Image
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
J. G. Holland