Top 43 Lyman Abbott Quotes
#1. Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
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#2. I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
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#3. A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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#4. The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.
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#5. A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.
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#6. I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.
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#7. Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.
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#8. God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.
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#9. Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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#10. Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.
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#11. The highest qualities of character ... must be earned.
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#12. Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.
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#13. The artist does not really create; he discovers.
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#14. Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
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#15. I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
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#16. It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
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#17. A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.
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#18. A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.
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#19. It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
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#20. He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.
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#21. The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
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#23. I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.
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#24. It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.
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#25. Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.
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#27. No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.
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#28. Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
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#29. If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.
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#30. Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.
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#31. Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
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#32. The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
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#33. Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.
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#34. If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
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#35. If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.
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#36. 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.
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#37. You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.
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#38. It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.
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#40. We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
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#42. 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."
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