Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Humility is important.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.