Quote#Work
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is…
Quote byJosiah Gilbert Holland · 1819–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 147.
English (original)
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it — that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
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