Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

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It is intended that we shall accomplish all, through law, that we can accomplish for ourselves. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

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

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Of all the advantages which come to any young man... poverty is the greatest.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

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

Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

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

Josiah Gilbert Holland
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
God only opened his hand to give flight to a thought [creation] that He had held imprisoned from eternity!

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.

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

Josiah Gilbert Holland
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

Josiah Gilbert Holland