No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, clergy)
Character is greater than circumstances
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) Hours of Communion (1848) p.56 (Universalist, clergy)
Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, clergy)
The angry, hateful soul, cannot comprehend the love that pervades the universe.
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) Hours of Communion (1848) p.109 (Universalist, clergy)
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon’s mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, clergy)
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips, and when we pray that it may pass away, to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, clergy)
And who will pass through the vicissitudes of this world, without meditation?
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) Hours of Communion (1848) p.118 (Universalist, clergy)
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities.
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, minister)
It is not the defects but the beauties which should form our criterion of judgment in all matters of art.
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, minister)
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, minister)
