247 Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

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.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.