Top 160 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

102. “O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

103. “The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

104. “A great many men – some comparatively small men now – if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

105. “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.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

106. “Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God’s works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

107. “This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

108. “A life is black, whiten it as you will.”

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109. “Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

110. “Do not judge from mere appearances...”

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111. “It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.”

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112. “Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.”

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113. “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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114. “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

115. “There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul – to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

116. “Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

117. “There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

118. “Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?”

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119. “God is the explanation of all things.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “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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122. “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.”

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123. “It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

124. “To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.”

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125. “We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union – a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

126. “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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127. “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

128. “In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.”

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129. “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.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

130. “It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

131. “The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.”

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132. “The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.”

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133. “Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.”

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134. “Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.”

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135. “Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.”

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136. “Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.”

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137. “How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.”

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138. “Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.”

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139. “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.”

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140. “The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.”

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141. “Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.”

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142. “Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.”

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143. “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.”

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144. “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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145. “The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

146. “The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.”

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147. “Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.”

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148. “Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.”

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149. “No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.”

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150. “Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.”

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