Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes From Edwin Hubbel Chapin Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. Edwin Hubbel Chapin nerves light men Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us. Edwin Hubbel Chapin dust mirrors book God is the explanation of all things. Edwin Hubbel Chapin explanation all-things god In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state. Edwin Hubbel Chapin weight matter reason There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect. Edwin Hubbel Chapin self-respect pride self No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart. Edwin Hubbel Chapin christian heart jesus This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. Edwin Hubbel Chapin vices evil men 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 sea men 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 prayer mother moving 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 logic truth may 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 Hubbel Chapin heart love-is jesus 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 answers men If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too. Edwin Hubbel Chapin heavy ifs stones He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin men people years Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sadness people thinking 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 ancient social mistake 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 gentleman glasses wine Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. Edwin Hubbel Chapin disguise soul blessing 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 angel sorrow home 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 rose feelings sympathy
