Top 160 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

2. “Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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3. “Impatience never commanded success.”

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4. “Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

5. “Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

6. “The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

7. “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

8. “Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

9. “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.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

10. “Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.”

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11. “If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.”

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12. “Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

13. “Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”

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14. “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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15. “Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.”

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18. “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.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

19. “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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20. “Neutral men are the devil’s allies.”

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21. “Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.”

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22. “There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.”

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23. “No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.”

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24. “Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”

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25. “Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

26. “A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

27. “The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.”

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28. “Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.”

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29. “We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God’s help and Christ’s example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.”

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30. “Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.”

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31. “Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

32. “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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33. “The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.”

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34. “No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.”

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35. “We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another’s doubt.”

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36. “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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37. “No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

38. “Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration – the secret alembics of vitality.”

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42. “There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.”

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43. “Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.”

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44. “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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45. “Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.”

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46. “Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.”

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47. “Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.”

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50. “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