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
growing-up progress thrones
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
angel may spheres
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.
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.
heart men animal
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.
men devil democracy
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
success impatience
Impatience never commanded success.
morality
Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
justice soul dwarfs
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
life happiness home
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
home institutions seminary
Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
hypocrisy flags signals
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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.