Lyman Abbott Quotes

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• All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."
• It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
• A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.
• We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a…
• The highest qualities of character...must be earned....
• Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
• Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath…
• Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and…
• In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not…
• The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less…
• The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
• I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
• I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
• Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
• Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.
• I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though…
• Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
• Patience is passion tamed.
• Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

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