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
hurt children pain
Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.
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.
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.
children eye hair
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.
children vices infinite
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.
children anger angry-words
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
american-author highest
The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
american-author life virtue
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
men competent
Service makes men competent.
artist unity infinite
Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.
bears witness ifs
If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.
art government essence
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.
thinking thank-god scientist
God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.
divine human-experience humans
It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.