Quotes by J.G. Holland

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.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

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.

The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man’s hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.

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

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

Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.