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Lyman Abbott (December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922) was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.

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How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.

Appreciate, Children, Disease, Kind, Mean, Taught

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Conquers, Doe, Hero, Know, Man, Men

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

Artist, Unity, Infinite, Make, Discern

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Cow, Cows, Harness, Horse

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.

Age, Blessed, Peaceful, Present, Retrospect, Three

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Divine, Experiences, Human, Human Experience, Humans, Interpret

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Believe, May, Orphan, Orphans, Comradeship

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

Competition, Condition, Devise, Life, Schemes, Vain

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

Money, Care, Pay, Take, Let

We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children It is Israel that has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty. It is Israel who had the first free institutions the world ever saw. When our own unchristian prejudices flame out against the Jewish people, let us remember that all that we have and all that we are we owe, under God, to what Judaism has given us.

Children, Father, Jewish, Laid, Law, Life

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Essence, Lord, Men, Reason, Transcendentalism

Courage is caution overcome.

Caution, Courage, Overcome, Overcoming

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Beautiful, Sleep, Thinking, Life, Land, Death

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

Extraordinary, God, Manifestation, Miracle, Ordinary

Commerce is a form of warfare.

Commerce, Form, Warfare

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Age, Beginning, Grows, Men, Tell, Unless

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

Development, Lower, Material, Mean, Progress, Universe

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Fellow Man, God, Man, Manacles, Men, Slavery

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Ambition, Duty, Golden, Mean, Right

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

Thinking, Thank God, Scientist, Know, God, Thank

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