Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Depth Copy Share Image
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Advantage Copy Share Image
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Blessing Copy Share Image
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Distrust Copy Share Image
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Criminals Copy Share Image
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Anarchy Copy Share Image
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Accumulation Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Church Copy Share Image
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Astronomy Copy Share Image
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conservatism 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
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Body Copy Share Image
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Evil Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Honest Copy Share Image
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christianity Copy Share Image
If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conscience Copy Share Image
Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christianity Copy Share Image
