Quote

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

J. G. Holland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. G. Holland
Fiction
Powerful
True
Truth
Littles
Find
Little
Contains

More quotes by 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
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
Image
Doubtless the world is wicked enough but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.
J. G. Holland
Image
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
Image
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
J. G. Holland
Image
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
J. G. Holland
Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
J. G. Holland
Image
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
J. G. Holland
Image
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
J. G. Holland
Image
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
J. G. Holland
Image
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
Image
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
J. G. Holland
Image
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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