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Top 25 Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes (PREACHER)

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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Pin
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars.Pin
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.Pin
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.Pin
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.Pin
Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.Pin
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.Pin
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.Pin
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.Pin
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
Impatience never commanded success.Pin
Impatience never commanded success.

Top 15 Inspirational Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes to Inspire Godly Living

“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Neutral men are the devil's allies.Pin
Neutral men are the devil’s allies.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust.Pin
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.Pin
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
Do not judge from mere appearances.Pin
Do not judge from mere appearances.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.Pin
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.Pin
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.Pin
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

“The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.”

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.Pin
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.Pin
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.Pin
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance.Pin
The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.Pin
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

“A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.”

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Edwin Hubbell Chapin Short Biography

Born on 29 December 1814 at Union-Village, Washington County, New York, Edwin Hubbell Chapin was a preacher and the editor of the Christian Leader, and was known for his oratory skills.

Chapin received his formal education at a seminary in Vermont. In 1838, he completed a course in theological studies and was ordained a pastor in the same year.

Two years later Chapin moved to Massachusetts and obtained a pastorate for the School Street Society. In 1848 he became pastor for the Church of Divine Paternity in New York drawing in crowds of listeners every Sunday for the thirty years he served.

Chapin was also the author of the poem Ocean Burial which was then made into a popular sailor’s song. In 1847, he authored several works such as Crown of Thorns and Discourses on The Lord’s Prayer.

Chapin was made an honorary member of the National Academy of Design in 1854.

Fourteen years after his death the Chapin Memorial Church was dedicated to him in his honor.

Further Reading:

Here are the best Edwin Hubbell Chapin quotes so you can be mindful of your actions and forgo revenge to live a faith-filled life.

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The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing bookPin
The Crown of Thorns: a token for the sorrowing

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