Josiah Gilbert Holland: Quotes about God

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Josiah Gilbert Holland: 32 quotes2 likes

“God give us men. The time demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-browned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland Wanted

Wanted, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Open your hands, ye Whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 25.

“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.

“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.

“What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 27.

“A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 47.