Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Character Copy Share Image
I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him. — Lyman Abbott Believe Copy Share Image
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always… — Lyman Abbott Extraordinary Copy Share Image
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world,… — Lyman Abbott Awakening Copy Share Image
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet… — Lyman Abbott Beam Copy Share Image
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the… — Lyman Abbott Civilized Copy Share Image
“A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up… — Lyman Abbott Books Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence. — Lyman Abbott Beneficence Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one… — Lyman Abbott Brother Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Ambition Copy Share Image
Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking… — Lyman Abbott Art Copy Share Image
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music,… — Lyman Abbott Adventure Copy Share Image
