Quotes from Mark Hopkins

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.