Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Goodness 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 sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Amusement Copy Share Image
It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Depth Copy Share Image
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Communion Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ancient Copy Share Image
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beautiful Copy Share Image
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Best opportunity Copy Share Image
O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ashes Copy Share Image
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Allegiance Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Delightful Copy Share Image
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
