Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

I keep God first. He me to go out and act and be humble and keep it simple. God gave me this gift to bless the world. That's what I'm here to do.

If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."