60 Quotes by Lyman Abbott

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice – but as yet unstained.

Every man’s life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, “now abideth faith, hope, charity.”

In New York – whose subway trains in particular have been “tattooed” with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame – not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

This is what evolution means – ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater – progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.