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 Aspiration Copy Share Image
Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Boundless Copy Share Image
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Battle 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
A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his… — 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
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
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
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Humor Copy Share Image
Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christ 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 Angel Copy Share Image
A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Creation Copy Share Image
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Anarchy Copy Share Image
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Astronomy Copy Share Image
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Criminals Copy Share Image
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Distrust Copy Share Image
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age 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
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
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
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
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
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
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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 Advancement 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 Constellations Copy Share Image
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Children Copy Share Image
The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Business Copy Share Image
We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
