John McClellan Holmes: Quotes about life

John McClellan Holmes was US Christian minister and author. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“It is neither possible nor desirable to make all men think alike. Variety is the very basis of harmony; and, in the sphere of ecclesiastical experience, oneness of feeling is vastly preferable to unanimity of belief. The voice of God, however, as uttered in the events and experiences of the past hundred years, enjoins upon the private membership of the church the culture of that "unity of the Spirit " which is begotten of the Holy Ghost, and which derives from its Divine Author the life in which it resides, the elements of which it is composed, and the impulses under which it acts.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 188.

Life , Men , God , Feeling

“In the whole range of human vision, nothing is more attractive than to see a young^ man full of promise and of hope, bending all his energies in the direction of truth and duty and God, his soul pervaded with the loftiest enthusiasm, and his life consecrated to the noblest ends. To be such a young man is to rival the noblest and best of men in heroic valor and Christian chivalry. Nay, to be such a young man is to be like Christ, the highest type, the most illustrious example of enthusiasm the world has ever seen.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 208.

Life , Men , God , Truth

“The only satisfactory manifestations of religious character and life are associated with the reciprocal influences of spiritual experience and aggressive activity.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 112.

Life

“The Christian's life on this side and beyond the grave is essentially the same, differing only as a song which, at a certain point, changes from the minor to the major key, and thenceforth wells along with still more glorious harmonies.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.

Life , Change