Josiah Gilbert Holland - Truth Quotes

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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction — this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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.

Josiah Gilbert Holland