Edwin Hubbell Chapin

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the …"

"There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home."

"Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, an…"

"Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant."

"I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else."

"Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

"Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns."

"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing."