Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. J. G. Holland More Quotes by J. G. Holland More Quotes From J. G. Holland There are no twin souls in God's universe. J. G. Holland universe twins soul The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. J. G. Holland form soul faces He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me. J. G. Holland would-be easy said 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. J. G. Holland selfishness facts world A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. J. G. Holland sin doe men 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 self animal men I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!. J. G. Holland differences eye lying I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view. J. G. Holland soul views air There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. J. G. Holland no-point form art Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone. J. G. Holland wild-world work men Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. J. G. Holland persistence work 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. J. G. Holland work men world Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. J. G. Holland poverty adversity men It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny. J. G. Holland destiny work men He that cannot paint must grind the colors. J. G. Holland grind paint color This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery! J. G. Holland islands sleep discovery 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. J. G. Holland bars stars soul I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify. J. G. Holland wealth office world We work and that is godlike. J. G. Holland godlike work 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 power exercise men
