110+ Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes On Education, Religion And Inspirational

Edwin Hubbel Chapin was an American clergyman of the 19th century. He was a prominent figure in the New York City Unitarian movement and was known for his eloquent preaching. He was also a social reformer who advocated for the abolition of slavery and the rights of women. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin on education, leadership, life.

Top 10 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

1. It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
2. Do not judge from mere appearances.
3. No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
4. Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.
5. Neutral men are the devil's allies.
6. The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.
7. Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
8. Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
9. Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
10. 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 Hubbel Chapin Short Quotes

• It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
• It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
• The essence of justice is mercy.
• However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
• Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
• Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
• The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Life

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Religion

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Love

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. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. — Edwin Hubbel 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 Hubbel Chapin

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Inspirational

Impatience never commanded success. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin Famous Quotes And Sayings

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven! — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Conscience is its own readiest accuser. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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! — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. 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 Hubbel Chapin

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else. — Edwin Hubbel 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 Hubbel Chapin

The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame. — Edwin Hubbel 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 Hubbel Chapin

A life is black, whiten it as you will. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

God is the explanation of all things. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me! — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life Lessons by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

1. Edwin Hubbel Chapin's work emphasizes the importance of living a life of service to others, as well as the importance of faith and moral values.
2. He also encourages us to strive for peace, harmony, and understanding in our relationships with others.
3. His teachings remind us that our actions should be guided by compassion and kindness, and that we should always strive to be the best version of ourselves.