Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. December 1814 – 1880
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Famous Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

“Pride is the master sin of the devil.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 484.

“Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 286.

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 251.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

“Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 450.

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