Mark Hopkins Quotes

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• Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

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  Language, Counterparts

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.224, Applewood Books

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• All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

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  Discipline, Growth, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

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• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.

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  Block, Thinking, Flames

  Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235

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• Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

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  Superstitions, Ethics, Morality

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• Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

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  Integrity, Character, Men

  Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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• Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

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  Prayer, Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy

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• Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Taken, Revolution

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.373, Applewood Books

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• Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

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  Men, Want, Affection

  Mark Hopkins (1853). “A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853”, p.31

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• Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

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  Home, Heaven, Doe

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• The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.

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  Heart, Principles, Want

  Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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• Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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  Uplifting, Good Christian, Christianity

  Mark Hopkins (1886). “A Discourse Delivered at Williamstown, June 29, 1886: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Election as President of Williams College”

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• The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

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  Self, Overcoming, Principles

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.89

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• The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

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  Spring, Heart, Infidelity

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.360, Applewood Books

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• Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.

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  Religious, Past, Men

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.47

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• To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.

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  Men, Energy, Principles

  Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

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• Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His Master." There may be weeping that shall endure for a night, but joy shall come in the morning. If the night cometh, so also the morning, "a morning without clouds," the morning of an eternal day.

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  Strong, Morning, Struggle

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• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

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• Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

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  Free Gifts, Way, Salvation

  Mark Hopkins (1837). “Sermons”

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• The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way through all the revolutions of kingdoms and the vicissitudes of the race; receiving new forms, but always identical in spirit; and, finally, expanding and embracing in one great brotherhood the whole family of man! Who can doubt that such a religion was from God?

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  Christian, Men, Ideas

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.196, Applewood Books

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• Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

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  Men, Inspire, Progress

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• But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.

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  Destiny, Choices, Balance

  Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

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• No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its position, as the pillar of fire, to lead the race onward. The intelligence and power of the race are with those who have embraced it; and now, if this, instead of proving indeed a pillar of fire from God, should be found but a delusive meteor, then nothing will be left to the race but to go back to a darkness that may be felt, and to a worse than Egyptian bondage.

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  Men, Fire, Race

  Mark Hopkins (1909). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book, with a Supplementary Chapter Considering Some Attacks on the Critical School, the Corroborative Evidence of Recently Discovered Manuscripts, Etc., and the Testimony of Jesus on His Trial”

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• Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces." By this sign we conquer.

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  Spiritual, Race, Sensual

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.189

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• Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

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  Character, Suffering, May

  Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

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• We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

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  Philosophy, Giving, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136

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