Josiah Gilbert Holland: Goodness

Josiah Gilbert Holland was Novelist, poet, editor. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

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“Emotion, feeling — these are well enough if they feed the springs of power. Prayer, praise, preaching — these are all good and never to be dispensed with; but if the life to which they minister have no manifestation out of them, it is a failure.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 114.

Life , Feeling , Spring , Failure

“Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends — all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father who would call us homeward towards Himself — all these are the ground and justification for a Christian discontent; but a murmuring, questioning, fault-finding spirit has direct and sympathetic alliance with nothing but the infernal.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 15.

Soul , Question

“It is intended that we shall accomplish all, through law, that we can accomplish for ourselves. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 367.

God , Law , Food , Way

“The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 279.

Love , God , Intelligence , Universe