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 More Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes From Edwin Hubbel Chapin Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. Edwin Hubbel Chapin flower roots sympathy 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 rain running lying 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 pennies reading temptation 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 elements religious littles Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. Edwin Hubbel Chapin shadow disappointment sides 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 play men heaven 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 names war blood It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. Edwin Hubbel Chapin display mourn sorrow We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me! Edwin Hubbel Chapin sea father death For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set. Edwin Hubbel Chapin forget men death Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry. Edwin Hubbel Chapin truth-is truth No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. Edwin Hubbel Chapin truth darkness men The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation. Edwin Hubbel Chapin tired light night Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? Edwin Hubbel Chapin glory ideas Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it. Edwin Hubbel Chapin blessed believe ideas A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God. Edwin Hubbel Chapin light darkness wonder Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence. Edwin Hubbel Chapin integrity character men God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin wish heart men Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows. Edwin Hubbel Chapin nature law blood Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. Edwin Hubbel Chapin quality humility spirit
