We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christ Copy Share Image
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bliss Copy Share Image
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — 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
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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 Glory Copy Share Image
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes. — 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
If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to… — 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bells Copy Share Image
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conviction Copy Share Image
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Crisis Copy Share Image
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Astronomy Copy Share Image
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — 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 Accumulation Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Church 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
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Alliances Copy Share Image
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Forgiveness Copy Share Image
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Advantage Copy Share Image
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Character Copy Share Image
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Baby Copy Share Image
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Appearances Copy Share Image
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Action Copy Share Image
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Duty Copy Share Image
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Birth 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
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Darkness Copy Share Image
