Quotes from John Andrew Holmes

If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.

The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.