Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
