E. H. Chapin Quotes

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

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

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

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

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.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

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.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

And I dream that something's coming And it's not just in the wind It's more than just tomorrow It's more than where we've been It offers me a promise It's telling me, begin!

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

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.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

God is the explanation of all things.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.