Lyman AbbottThe highest qualities of character...must be earned.376Death
Lyman AbbottEvery life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ✨ Lyman Abbott (1900). Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott332Life
Lyman AbbottPatience is passion tamed. ✨ Lyman Abbott (2009). The Theology of an Evolutionist, p.118, Cambridge University Press302Love
Lyman AbbottIn New York - whose subway trains in particular have been tattooed with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of a… ▶379Humor
Lyman AbbottI abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ✨ Lyman Abbott (1872). Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country… ▶337Life
Lyman AbbottThe very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. ✨ Lyman Abbott (1872). Laicus: Or, The Experie… ▶274Life
Lyman AbbottIt is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.288Reflection
Lyman AbbottPostmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid inte… ▶257HopeTime
Lyman AbbottWe 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 childre… ▶162LifePolitics
Lyman AbbottAll Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, now abideth faith, hope, charity.175Hope
Lyman AbbottDo not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.165Sadness
Lyman AbbottThe brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other. ✨ Lyman Abbott … ▶178Politics
Lyman AbbottA child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. ✨ Lyman Abbott (1900). Problems of Life: Selection… ▶139Life
Lyman AbbottEvery great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a hea… ▶1310Politics
