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> [If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/if-the-impure-and-the-unjust-the-drunkard-and-the-licentious-are/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

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## More by Lyman Abbott

> [No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/no-man-can-be-patient-who-has-not-strong-passions-for-patience-is/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/we-gentiles-owe-our-life-to-israel-it-is-israel-who-has-brought-us/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/if-the-impure-and-the-unjust-the-drunkard-and-the-licentious-are/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/i-abhor-a-hoe-i-am-fond-of-flowers-but-not-of-dirt-and-had-rather-buy/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/if-i-am-to-tell-you-how-to-grow-old-gracefully-i-must-tell-you-at-the/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [Courage is caution overcome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/courage-is-caution-overcome/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/it-is-easy-to-condemn-it-is-better-to-pity/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/every-life-is-march-from-innocence-through-temptation-to-virtue-or/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/a-graceful-and-blessed-old-age-must-have-three-elements-in-it-a-happy/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/a-child-is-a-beam-of-sunlight-from-the-infinite-and-eternal-with/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/i-think-of-death-as-a-glad-awakening-from-this-troubled-sleep-which/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/a-miracle-constantly-repeated-becomes-a-process-of-nature/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/evolution-does-not-attempt-to-explain-the-origin-of-life-it-is-simply/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/a-miracle-no-longer-seems-to-me-a-manifestation-of-extraordinary/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

> [Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyman-abbott/postmodernism-represents-a-moment-of-suspension-before-the-batteries/)

[Lyman Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyman-abbott/)

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