J. G. Holland Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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

  Soul, Body, Should

• If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

  J. G. Holland

  Keys, August, Giving

• Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

  J. G. Holland

  Music, Song, Sea

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".

• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

  J. G. Holland

  Life, Spiritual, Soul And Body

• And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

  J. G. Holland

  Death, Clouds, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 185, 1895.

• Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

  J. G. Holland

  Artist, Hands, Soul

  J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.98

• 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

  Lying, Eye, Differences

  J. G. HOLLAND (1881). “SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY”

• The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

  J. G. Holland

  Soul, Liberty, Firsts

• The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

  J. G. Holland

  Soul, Faces, Form

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.37

• There are no twin souls in God's universe.

  J. G. Holland

  Soul, Twins, Universe

• 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

  Stars, Soul, Bars

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.39

• 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

  Air, Views, Soul

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.53

• My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Religious, Inspiration

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.77

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