Divine Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

10 Divine quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Chapin’s writings often linger on the quiet assurance of faith. This brief set of ten quotes provides a sincere glimpse into his contemplative approach to the divine.

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of…

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It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to…

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Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

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If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels,…

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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed…

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Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

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What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so…

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God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It…

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All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a…

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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

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Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses…

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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

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A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings…

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There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

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Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

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The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech…

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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…

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