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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:

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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 Hubbell Chapin

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.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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 Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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 Hubbell Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Motivation'Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. 'Get a reputation, and then go to bed,' is the absurdest of all maxims. 'Keep up a reputation or go to bed, 'would be nearer the truth.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin