Edwin Hubbell Chapin > Quotes

“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.”
― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars.”
― E. H. CHAPIN

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”
― E.H. Chapin

“The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance.”
― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Tidak pernah jiwa manusia tampil begitu kuat seperti saat mereka mengurungkan balas dendam dan berani memaafkan.”
― E. H. Chapin

“The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career, and constellations shake their awful clusters--wanders amid the spectral nebula, and makes suns and systems to be but glittering beads upon the aspiring thread of its induction, cannot perish. There is a future life. In a universe so spherical and whole as this, reason argues that its own incompleteness and capacity for more are suggestive--are prophetical. Under-shadows and cross-lights of mystery, these filmy depths of present being, shudder in sympathy with something beyond.”
― E.H. Chapin

“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
― Edwin Hubbel Chapin American writer and preacher

“Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”
― Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The essence of justice is mercy.”
― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.”
― Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.”
― E. H. Chapin

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven. - quoted on page 567 of Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)”
― Edwin Hubbell Chapin