Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Wicked, Wages

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

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Crowns, Worn

• 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.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Christian, Time, Snow

• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Names, Two

• 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.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Practice, Heaven, Use

• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Moving, Light, Race

• 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.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Play, Heaven

• Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Rewards, Sake

• Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Shoes, Heaven

• Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wise, Men, Air

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