Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

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The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin