Evil Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

9 Evil quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Chapin’s 19th‑century sermons often warned against sin. These nine brief excerpts give a snapshot of his religious admonitions concerning evil.

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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

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The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

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This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

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In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the…

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A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going…

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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his…

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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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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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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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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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It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

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