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
chord life touches vibrate
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
life heart men
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
life character other-worlds
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
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.
life crucible life-is
Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.
life ideas age
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.
world immortal-life action
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.
life dream spiritual
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
life opportunity goal
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.
life black life-is
A life is black, whiten it as you will.
life yield higher
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
inspiring karma good-life
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
loyalty simple self-respect
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
opportunity temptation concurrence
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.