Josiah Gilbert Holland - Power Quotes

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

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Emotion, feeling — these are well enough if they feed the springs of power. Prayer, praise, preaching — these are all good and never to be dispensed with; but if the life to which they minister have no manifestation out of them, it is a failure.

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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

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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.

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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

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