Edwin Hubbel Chapin famous quotes

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Inspiring #Good Life #Inspirational Life

Do not judge from mere appearances...
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Judging #Appearance

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Mother #Stars #Men

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Laughter #Sadness #Men

The essence of justice is mercy.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Essence #Justice #Mercy

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Positive #Inward #Goodness

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Loyalty #Simple #Self Respect

O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Men #Two #Names

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Death #Secret #Vitality

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Selfish #Honor #Sensual

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Men #Looks #Doing Nothing

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Beautiful #Death #Kindness

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Blood #Sorrow #Age

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#World #This World #Importance

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Fashion #Moving #Passion

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Wine #Glasses #Gentleman

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Wise #Men #Air

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Moving #Light #Race

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Forgiving #Enemy #Forget

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Sublime #Sorrow #Christianity

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Eden #Victory #Example

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Distance #Light #Purple

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Ocean #Men #Sea

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Spiritual #Civilization #Cities

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Conscience

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Giving #Coins #Bills

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Wish #Might #Acorns

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Looks #World #Saws

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Country #Religious #Cities

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Thinking #Deceit #Misery

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Education #Quality #Doe

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.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#World #Action #Eternity

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Self #Personality #Excellence

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Future #Flower #Past

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

#Flower #Genius #Human Nature

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Believe #Gentleman #Difficult

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Death #Advancement #Rising

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Death #Sweet #Children

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Prayer #Men #Answers

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Sadness #Thinking #People

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Mother #Prayer #Moving

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Heart #Men #Wings

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Home #Angel #Sorrow

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Sorrow #Mourn

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Sympathy #Rose #Feelings

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Sympathy #Flower #Roots

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Reading #Temptation #Nails

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Religious #Elements #Littles

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Disappointment #Shadow #Trials

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Truth #May #Logic

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Men #Play #Heaven

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Running #Lying #Rain

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Peace #Integrity #Sacrifice

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Nature #Men #Sea

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Political #Important #Entering

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Light #Evil #Shadow

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Fashion #Real #Leader

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#God #Spiritual #Order

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Girl #Mother #Children

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Ocean #Inspiration #Heart

What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Mother #Children #Heart

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Birth #Influence #Hours

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Fashion #Men #Grandfather

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Life #Heart #Men

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Life #Character #Other Worlds

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 Hubbel Chapin

#Men #Sky #Shining

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Mistake #Ancient #Social

The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#War #Names #Blood

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Christian #Men #Evil

The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Children #Spring #Grief

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Spring #Men #Long

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Blessing #Soul #Disguise