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Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 - March 29, 1878) was an individual whose profession and category are not well-documented. His life story and contributions remain unclear due to limited information available.

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“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.”

Men Want Wealth Eternity Relation Affection Deeper

Book:A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853

Source: A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853

“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 fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

Men Ends Character Might Integrity Capable Pursuit Rational Faculty Als Strength Of Character Having Strength

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.”

Men Christianity Progress Movement Inspire Guides Unfolding

Author:Mark Hopkins

“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Men Energy Easy Christ Principles Becoming Demand All Things Sake Firm Wickedness Gentleness Energetic Meekness Godlike

Book:Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

“Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.”

Men World Action Past Religious Race Remove Another World Nature Of Man Sprung

Book:Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844

Source: Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844

“Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.”

Men Has Beens Two Christianity Impossible Morality Salvation Unions Tendencies Curse Opposition Superstitions Adequate

Author:Mark Hopkins

“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.”

“No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its position, as the pillar of fire, to lead the race onward. The intelligence and power of the race are with those who have embraced it; and now, if this, instead of proving indeed a pillar of fire from God, should be found but a delusive meteor, then nothing will be left to the race but to go back to a darkness that may be felt, and to a worse than Egyptian bondage.”

Source: Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book, with a Supplementary Chapter Considering Some Attacks on the Critical School, the Corroborative Evidence of Recently Discovered Manuscripts, Etc., and the Testimony of Jesus on His Trial

“The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way through all the revolutions of kingdoms and the vicissitudes of the race; receiving new forms, but always identical in spirit; and, finally, expanding and embracing in one great brotherhood the whole family of man! Who can doubt that such a religion was from God?”

Source: Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity