Heaven Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

10 Heaven quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Chapin’s 19th‑century sermons often touched on the afterlife, and this short selection of ten quotes captures his earnest hope for the celestial.

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We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is…

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The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more…

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which…

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The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

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Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

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Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

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Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

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There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who…

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O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites,…

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Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and…

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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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