About Lyman Abbott: Lyman Abbott was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
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.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
