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
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ability Copy Share Image
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Enemies Copy Share Image
“Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Character Copy Share Image
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Death Copy Share Image
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Concurrence Copy Share Image
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Brutal Copy Share Image
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beautiful Copy Share Image
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Best opportunity Copy Share Image
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Amusement Copy Share Image
It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Depth Copy Share Image
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age 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
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
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beauty Copy Share Image
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Argument Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Differences Copy Share Image
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Assurance Copy Share Image
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Challenges Copy Share Image
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Evil Copy Share Image
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Blessing Copy Share Image
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Goodness Copy Share Image
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Earth Copy Share Image
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Always moving Copy Share Image
