Top 120 J.G. Holland Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it – that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.”

— J.G. Holland

102. “Wants keep pace with wealth always.”

— J.G. Holland

103. “Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.”

— J.G. Holland

104. “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.”

— J.G. Holland

105. “A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.”

— J.G. Holland

106. “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.”

— J.G. Holland

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

— J.G. Holland

108. “I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins – particularly fashionable sins.”

— J.G. Holland

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

— J.G. Holland

110. “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.”

— J.G. Holland

111. “It is the life in literature that acts upon life.”

— J.G. Holland

112. “All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.”

— J.G. Holland

113. “Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.”

— J.G. Holland

114. “Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.”

— J.G. Holland

115. “Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people’s wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?”

— J.G. Holland

116. “Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.”

— J.G. Holland

117. “To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.”

— J.G. Holland

118. “There are no twin souls in God’s universe.”

— J.G. Holland

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

— J.G. Holland

120. “There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.”

— J.G. Holland

121. “There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.”

— J.G. Holland

122. “Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.”

— J.G. Holland

123. “So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.”

— J.G. Holland

124. “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.”

— J.G. Holland

125. “No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.”

— J.G. Holland

126. “Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.”

— J.G. Holland

127. “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.”

— J.G. Holland

128. “A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman’s eyes; for God himself sits behind them.”

— J.G. Holland

129. “The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.”

— J.G. Holland

130. “Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.”

— J.G. Holland