Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 4

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• This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

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  Men, Evil, Vices

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• Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

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  Death, Higher, Fruitful Life

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• Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

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  Beautiful, Death, Kindness

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• Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

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  Mercy, Whole, One Word

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• 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.

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  Stars, Men, Space

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• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

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  Heart, Poetry, Oracles

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• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

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  Love, Pain, Poverty

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• All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.

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  Light, Evil, Shadow

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• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

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  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

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  Sad, Laughter, Ex Boyfriend

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• I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

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  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

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  Loss, Men, Challenges

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• The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

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  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• 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.

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  Weight, Matter, Reason

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• There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

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  Pride, Self, Self Respect

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• No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

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  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

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  Mean, Men, Soul

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• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

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  Believe, Eggs, Oval

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• Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Flags, Signals

  "Extemporaneous discourses : delivered in the Broadway church, New York" by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Publisher: New York: O. Hutchinson, (p. 319), 1860.

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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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  Practice, Heaven, Use

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• Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

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  Tombstone, Past, Long

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• A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

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  Men, Would Be, Columbus

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

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  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

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  Pride, Flesh, Environment

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• Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

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  Men, Looks, Doing Nothing

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