Spirituality Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

8 Spirituality quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin’s thoughtful voice appears in these eight short excerpts. They offer a modest yet clear window into his contemplative approach to faith.

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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…

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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the…

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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

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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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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and…

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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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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

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The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming…

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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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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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