Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality. — Lyman Abbott Adventure 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
God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they… — Lyman Abbott Knows 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within. — Lyman Abbott Corruption 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
