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
life yield higher
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
music beautiful sublime
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
mom mother stars
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
inspiring karma good-life
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Do not judge from mere appearances...
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
evil overcoming way
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
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No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
men evil vices
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
god explanation all-things
God is the explanation of all things.
men nerves moral
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
mind
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
weight matter reason
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.