Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Love one another (His last words)

The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.