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
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.
men essence transcendentalism
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
brother men fatherhood
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
christian easter charity
All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."
pity easy
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
children father israel
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children It is Israel that has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty. It is Israel who had the first free institutions the world ever saw. When our own unchristian prejudices flame out against the Jewish people, let us remember that all that we have and all that we are we owe, under God, to what Judaism has given us.
wrath law community
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.