Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#innocence #life #life is a #march #temptation

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#child #eternal #infinite #possibilities #sunlight

Patience is passion tamed. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#patience #tamed

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#innocence #life #march #temptation #through

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#am #buy #cultivate #dirt #flowers

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

— Lyman Abbott

#am #cannot #cow #harness #horse

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#condemn #easy #pity

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#reason #religion

The highest qualities of character... must be earned. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#earned #highest #must #qualities

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. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#essence #faculty #highest #lord #man