Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Chapinwas an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
Edwin Hubbel Chapin quotes about
growing-up progress thrones
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
kindness saint creeds
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
god morning eye
God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.
men rising bed
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.
men devil democracy
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
justice soul dwarfs
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
home institutions seminary
Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
courage men bravery
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.
faith heart people
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
achievement soul endurance
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
christian time snow
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.
fall order ties
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.
heart wool jewelry
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
death higher conditions
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.