Maria Weston Chapman famous quotes

03-28-2025

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Prayer #Sacrifice #Yield
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Evil #May #Draws
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Voice #Justice #Giving
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Character #People #Done
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Selfish #Men #Rights
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Stars #Women #Confusion
Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Flames #Water #Woods
In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.
-- Maria Weston Chapman

#Government #Land #Thrones

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Maria Weston Chapman famous quotes

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