Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
J. G. Holland
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
J. G. Holland
Faith
Expense
Sense
Expenses
Human
Obligation
Humans
Bible
Whole
Foundation
Done
Cost
Religious
Weaken
Happiness
Implicit
More quotes by J. G. Holland
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
J. G. Holland
Calmness is the cradle of power.
J. G. Holland
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
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
J. G. Holland
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
J. G. Holland
Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
J. G. Holland
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
J. G. Holland
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
J. G. Holland
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J. G. Holland
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
J. G. Holland
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
J. G. Holland
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
J. G. Holland
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
J. G. Holland
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
J. G. Holland
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
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
J. G. Holland
It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
J. G. Holland
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
J. G. Holland
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
J. G. Holland
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
J. G. Holland