Believe Quote by Lyman Abbott

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

— Lyman Abbott

We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is…

— Lyman Abbott

If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely…

— Lyman Abbott

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

— Lyman Abbott

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can…

— Lyman Abbott

Courage is caution overcome.

— Lyman Abbott

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

— Lyman Abbott

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

— Lyman Abbott

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old…

— Lyman Abbott

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

— Lyman Abbott

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful…

— Lyman Abbott

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

— Lyman Abbott