J.G. Holland Quotes

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

The temple of art is built in words.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

Trust God and Believe in good things to come!

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

Be yourself. Don't pretend that you know something you don't. Don't create the appearance of fake authority. Speak about the things you really care about.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.

If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.

Somebody like you taught somebody like me.

Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

Be strong. Live the gospel faithfully even if others around you don’t live it at all.

He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.