If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share
