Quotes from J. G. Holland

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

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.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

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.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

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.