A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but… — 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
