Holiday Quotes

Who first invented work, and bound the free an holiday rejoicing spirit down?

Lamb.

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work; but when they seldom come, the wished for come.

Shakespeare.

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves n silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart, when the full tide of feeling overflows.

Longfellow.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Tryon Edwards.

Under the leaves, amid the grass, lazily the day shall pass, yet not be wasted. From my drowsy ease I borrow health and strength to bear my boat through the great life ocean.

Mackay.

Holiness is the symmetry of the soul.

Philip Henry.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy, or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Tryon Edwards.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God to see his creatures forever drawing nearer to him by greater degrees of resemblance.

Addison.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

Mrs. Jameson.

Holiness is the architectural plan on which God buildeth up his living temple.

Spurgeon.

Our holy lives must win a new world’s crown.

Shakespeare.

Holiness is religious principle put into action. It is faith gone to work. It is love coined into conduct; devotion helping human suffering, and going up in intercession to the great source of all good.

F.D. Huntington.

If it be the characteristic of a worldly man than he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.

Chalmers.

Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds reflect such glory on the eye supreme, as the meek virtues of the holy man.

R.Montgomery.

Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse. Angels, but not fallen ones, were created. Man does not properly rise to the highest, but first sinks down from it, and then afterward rises again.

Richter.

The essence of true holiness consists in conformity to the nature and will of God.

Lucas.

Holiness consisteth not in a cowl or in a garment of gray. When God purifies the heart by faith, the market is sacred as well as the sanctuary; neither remaineth there any work or place which is profane.

Luther.

Holiness in us, is the copy or transcript of the holiness that is in Christ. As the wax hath line for line from the seal, and the child feature for feature from the father, so is holiness in us from him.

Philip hurry.

What Christianity most needs in her antagonism with every from of unbelief, is holy living.

Christlieb.

The beauty of holiness has done more, and will do more, to regenerate the world and bring in everlasting righteousness them all the other agencies put together. It has done more to spread religion in the world, than all that has ever been preached or written on the evidences of Christianity.

Chalmers.

A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.

Leighton.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the spirit of God.

Pascal.