Josiah Gilbert Holland: Quotes about life

Josiah Gilbert Holland was Novelist, poet, editor. Explore interesting quotes on life.
Josiah Gilbert Holland: 32 quotes2 likes

“Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence, is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings he bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 26.

“So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 115.

“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.

“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.