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 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 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 cities religious country There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. Edwin Hubbel Chapin martyr self world Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried. Edwin Hubbel Chapin crucible life-is life Neutral men are the devil's allies. Edwin Hubbel Chapin devil democracy men Impatience never commanded success. Edwin Hubbel Chapin motivation success inspirational Morality is but the vestibule of religion. Edwin Hubbel Chapin morality However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. Edwin Hubbel Chapin logical ends faith In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads. Edwin Hubbel Chapin faith believe fall We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt. Edwin Hubbel Chapin honesty faith doubt Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition. Edwin Hubbel Chapin progress truth law Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. Edwin Hubbel Chapin age life ideas Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. Edwin Hubbel Chapin college graduation men Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars. Edwin Hubbel Chapin space stars men It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer. Edwin Hubbel Chapin prayer spring lying Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. Edwin Hubbel Chapin coping evil may Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Edwin Hubbel Chapin indulge-in gentleman vices The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation. Edwin Hubbel Chapin worn crowns heaven 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 Hubbel Chapin cures evil men 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 deceit misery thinking
