Charnock Edwin Quotes

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing ~ Edwin Louis Cole

Life is the game that must be played ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering
the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,
what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning. ~ Edwin Moses

Crying over what's gone won't find the present. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily. ~ Edwin Land

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,
one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin ... though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime ~ Edwin Louis Cole

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. ~ Edwin Lefevre

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little. ~ Stephen Charnock

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! ~ Edwin Louis Cole

You are committed to what you confess. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

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. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear
in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust
that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. ~ Edwin Land

Neutral men are the devil's allies. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers. ~ Edwin Arnold

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I was always more of an academic than a jock. ~ Edwin Moses

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. ~ Edwin Markham

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing. ~ Edwin Arnold

Work hard, persevere and help without hesitation to become an Asset instead of Liability. ~ Edwin Calingasan

Once
There was a quiet island,
With a name.
You must believe me
When I say that sunlight,
Impure but beautiful,
Broke upon the bay, silvered
The unrepentant, burning moon. ~ Edwin Thumboo

The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope. ~ Edwin Arnold

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars. ~ Stephen Hawking

Up with skirts, down with pants!' ~ Edwin Edwards

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. ~ Edwin Meese

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ~ Edwin Way Teale

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong!
Tell me, O Lord
tell me, O Lord, how long
Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross! ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress. ~ Edwin Hodge

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple