Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

Mark Hopkins's Popular Quotes

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

- Mark Hopkins

We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus…

- Mark Hopkins

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surfac…

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Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fa…

- Mark Hopkins

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

- Mark Hopkins

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

- Mark Hopkins

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

- Mark Hopkins

Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His …

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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

- Mark Hopkins