List of J. G. Holland Quotes

To Labor Rightly And Earnestly Is To Walk In The Golden Track That Leads To God. It Is To Adopt The Regimen Of Manhood And Womanhood. It Is To Come Into Sympathy With The Great Struggle Of Humanity Toward Perfection. It Is To Adopt The Fellowship Of All The Great And Good The World Has Ever Known.

My Idea Of The Christian Religion Is, That It Is An Inspiration And Its Vital Consequences--an Inspiration And A Life--god's Life Breathed Into A Man And Breathed Through A Man--the Highest Inspiration And The Highest Life Of Every Soul Which It Inhabits; And, Furthermore, That The Soul Which It Inhabits Can Have No High Issue Which Is Not Essentially Religious.

A Man In Whom Religion Is An Inspiration, Who Has Surrendered His Being To Its Power, Who Drinks It, Breathes It, Bathes In It, Cannot Speak Otherwise Than Religiously.

God Be Thanked That There Are Some In The World To Whose Hearts The Barnacles Will Not Cling.

Play May Not Have So High A Place In The Divine Economy, But Is Has As Legitimate A Place As Prayer.

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.

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.

Whatever Of True Glory Has Been Won By Any Nation Of The Earth; Whatever Great Advance His Been Made By Any Nation In That Which Constitutes A High Christian Civilization, Has Been Always At The Cost Of Sacrifice; Has Cost The Price Marked Upon It In God's Inventory Of National Good.

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.

We Live In The Future. Even The Happiness Of The Present Is Made Up Mostly Of That Delightful Discontent Which The Hope Of Better Things Inspires.

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.

Why Will You Be Always Sallying Out To Break Lances With Other People's Wind-mills, When Your Own Is Not Capable Of Grinding Corn For The Horse You Ride?