Edwin Hubbell Chapin quotes

Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher, poet, and orator renowned for his eloquence and inspirational messages. His sermons and writings resonated widely in the nineteenth century, influencing religious and social thought. He gained national recognition as one of the leading voices of the Universalist Church in America. Here are 42 of his quotes:

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The essence of justice is mercy.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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 Hubbell Chapin

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin