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
new-york space rude
In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.
mean progress development
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.
wise believe men
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God.
character quality praying
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
law together moral
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.
running character attainment
The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.
miracle process
A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.
children mean appreciate
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.
miracle ordinary manifestation
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.
soul battlefields
Every soul is a battlefield.
men fellow-man slavery
Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.
believe light appreciate
I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.
patience strong passion
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.
men age grows
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.