Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Character Copy Share Image
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within. — Lyman Abbott Corruption Copy Share Image
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. — Lyman Abbott Abhor Copy Share Image
It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine. — Lyman Abbott Divine Copy Share Image
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking… — Lyman Abbott Art Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Ambition Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one… — Lyman Abbott Brother Copy Share Image
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music,… — Lyman Abbott Adventure Copy Share Image
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world,… — Lyman Abbott Awakening Copy Share Image
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence. — Lyman Abbott Beneficence Copy Share Image
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future.… — Lyman Abbott Age Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Children Copy Share Image
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises… — Lyman Abbott Anger Copy Share Image
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Age Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Character Copy Share Image
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is… — Lyman Abbott Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material… — Lyman Abbott Biology Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel,… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Children Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Ambitious Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. — Lyman Abbott Anger Copy Share Image
