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 More Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes From Edwin Hubbel Chapin Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn--no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us. Edwin Hubbel Chapin heart lying jesus Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization. Edwin Hubbel Chapin progress mind civilization The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. Edwin Hubbel Chapin arteries rotting leafs A life is black, whiten it as you will. Edwin Hubbel Chapin black life-is life Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils. Edwin Hubbel Chapin spiritual dream life God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God. Edwin Hubbel Chapin eye god morning 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 shining sky men Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. Edwin Hubbel Chapin reckless despair depth The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. Edwin Hubbel Chapin slippery fanatics heart 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 Hubbel Chapin splendid mystery eye How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. Edwin Hubbel Chapin careers girl men 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 Hubbel Chapin amusement sunshine flower 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 purple distance light 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 grief spring children The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin christmas heart sweet 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 cities spiritual civilization Conscience is its own readiest accuser. Edwin Hubbel Chapin accusers 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 coins bills giving 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 reform wish may 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 saws looks world
