Edwin Hubbell Chapin quotes

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. (Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
There is no happiness in life and there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Neutral men are the devil's allies. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. (Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The essence of justice is mercy. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. (Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin