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E. H. CHAPIN QUOTES IV

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn--no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

If the poor man's earthly lot is hard, it makes more welcome the suggestions of heaven.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

In proportion to the difficulty of the endeavor is the glory of the achievement.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Belief in God does not rest upon a mere doctrine of logic, which some other statement of logic may come and upset. It is one of those primal facts in the human soul which no mere logic has established nor can refute.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Each age holds the contents of all other ages.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

A transcendent faith, a cheerful trust turns the darkness into a pillar of fire, and the cloud by day into a perpetual glory. They who thus march on are refreshed even in the wilderness, and hear streams of gladness trickling among the rocks.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Like the gush of the morning light, truth must go forward.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

It is not the man that gives me most of outward things that helps me to live; but the man who gives me thoughts and ideas by which a wider sweep of beauty opens to my vision, and kindles in my holy affections, by which I rise nearer to God.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The stars that roll in glory far above us, and that have stood out so long upon the firmament, like figures on the dial of eternity, shall fade and disappear. But we, who tremble at their greatness and thirst for their secrets, shall pass and live beyond them. Time has no mortgage on the human soul.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

All that affliction of the darkest kind ever can work to the true soul is to awaken it up to spiritual things, to open the clear eye, to make the spiritual reality the more real. If you rightly comprehend it it only strikes that which is round about you, it only removes that which is outward and physical, but it leaves you all the same a greater and a better man for your trial.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Religion sows within us the seeds of an undying joy that fails not when outward means of happiness fail, and sorrows darken, and cares appall. It sheds abroad a holy serenity in the heart, and imparts a calm lustre to the brow.... It reveals new sorces of happiness. It makes the spire of grass and the star beautiful ministers of delight.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and sorrow triumphant.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars--not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the storm has passed. It is the light that hovers above the judgment-seat.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

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

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The student of nature is like one who goes with a candle into some immense cavern. Presently a little circle becomes clear, the shadows vanish before him, and undefined forms grow distinct. He thinks he is near the end, when, lo! what seemed a solid boundary of rock dissolves and floats away into a depth of darkness, the path opens into an immense void, new shapes of mystery start out, and he learns this much that he did not know before, that instead of being near the end he is only upon the threshold.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

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.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Poetry is the utterance of truth--deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

We can imagine a world in which there is no work. A world bathed in incessant summer, whose seed-times and harvests are ever mingling, whose springing influences perpetually ascend, whose fruitage perpetually ripens through all the procession of its golden year. A world in which man would never feel the sting of want, And where the felicities of being would unfold without his effort. But we cannot conceive any such world, connected with human peculiarities and necessities, one half, one tithe so glorious as our old world of struggle and of labor. For wherever God has admitted man's agency the noblest results, the achievements of real worth and splendor are the fruits of patient and sinewy toil.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

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.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty, but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN, Living Words

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart; the great doers in history have always been men of faith.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN, Characters in the Gospels: Illustrating Phases of Character at the Present Day

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN, Living Words

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN, Humanity in the City

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN, Living Words


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