Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. — Lyman Abbott Anger Copy Share Image
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott Be patient Copy Share Image
Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself. — Lyman Abbott Care Copy Share Image
Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality. — Lyman Abbott Adventure Copy Share Image
It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine. — Lyman Abbott Divine Copy Share Image
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. — Lyman Abbott Abhor Copy Share Image
In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to… — Lyman Abbott Advertisements Copy Share Image
He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that… — Lyman Abbott Conquer Copy Share Image
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of… — Lyman Abbott Assuming Copy Share Image
All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth… — Lyman Abbott Charity Copy Share Image
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must… — Lyman Abbott Character Copy Share Image
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no… — Lyman Abbott Age Copy Share Image
You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine… — Lyman Abbott Divine Copy Share Image
God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they… — Lyman Abbott God nature Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Character Copy Share Image
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is… — Lyman Abbott Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material… — Lyman Abbott Biology Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Age Copy Share Image
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the… — Lyman Abbott Believe Copy Share Image
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises… — Lyman Abbott Anger Copy Share Image
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future.… — Lyman Abbott Age Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Children Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Appreciate Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Children Copy Share Image
Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel,… — Lyman Abbott Amount Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Ambitious Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious… — Lyman Abbott Appreciate Copy Share Image
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within. — Lyman Abbott Corruption Copy Share Image
