Mark Hopkins Quotes


Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.


Citations

Hopkins, Mark. The Law of Love and Love as a Law; or, Christian Ethics. Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1874, p. 115.

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Mark Hopkins
Mark Hopkins
  • Born: September 1, 1813
  • Died: March 29, 1878
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Railroad Investor & Treasurer

Mark Hopkins was an American railroad executive. He was one of four principal investors that funded Theodore D. Judah's idea of building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, California to Promontory, Utah. They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.