In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Cases Copy Share Image
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Attainment Copy Share Image
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Authenticity Copy Share Image
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ascension Copy Share Image
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Advancement Copy Share Image
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Higher Copy Share Image
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Acceptance Copy Share Image
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Differences Copy Share Image
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ache Copy Share Image
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Glory Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Alliances Copy Share Image
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beauty Copy Share Image
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Enemy Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Agents Copy Share Image
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Funny Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Blank Copy Share Image
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Crisis Copy Share Image
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Earth Copy Share Image
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin And love Copy Share Image
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bars Copy Share Image
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bigotry Copy Share Image
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Challenges Copy Share Image
