Lyman Abbott
Lyman Abbott
Lyman Abbott was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 December 1835
CountryUnited States of America
american-author life virtue
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
american-author highest
The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
bears witness ifs
If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.
divine human-experience humans
It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.
warfare form commerce
Commerce is a form of warfare.
selfish animal ambitious
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.
reason conclusion
Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
money care pay
Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.
beautiful sleep thinking
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.
fighting thinking corruption
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
courage overcoming caution
Courage is caution overcome.
ambition mean golden
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
horse cows harness
I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
flower hoe dirt
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.