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
thinking deceit misery
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
knowledge men thinking
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
thinking civilization ideas
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.
sorry thinking people
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.
sadness thinking people
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
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.
desire inspires rather science seem
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
chord life touches vibrate
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
death father sea
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!
names looks debt
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
jesus heart love-is
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.
mother children heart
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.
birth influence hours
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.