Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
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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.
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Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.
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No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
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We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.
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However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
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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.
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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.
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Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
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A life is black, whiten it as you will.
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Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
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Neutral men are the devil's allies.
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Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
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There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
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The essence of justice is mercy.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.