Light Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

10 Light quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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When you need a quick spark of inspiration, Chapin’s brief musings on illumination step in. His language balances earnestness with wit, offering a modest but thoughtful look at how light shapes experience.

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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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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

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A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of…

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Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

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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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Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

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Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after…

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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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The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our…

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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections…

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Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what…

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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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