Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

There are reasons to go on living despite what horrors may come in your life. And love informs those reasons.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

It was terrible. 2012, no voice. I would fall to my knees and look up at God and say, 'Oh, man, this is tough. I don't know how to be a person.' And finally, I would sing some shows where the voice crapped out. There were people in the audience. I did my best. I saw that there was lots of love and support.

There are a lot of ups and downs. But there are always people who have it worse.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

I think about my mom and the things she went through, and things could always be a lot worse.

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.