Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 12

• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

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  Beauty, Mother, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

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  Love, Missing You, Heartbreak

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.184, Applewood Books

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• A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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  Children, Possibility, Babe

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

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  Hero, Tree, Saint

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

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  Beautiful, Autumn, Color

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• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

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  Emotional, Long, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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  Inspirational, War, Names

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• Love is more just than justice.

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  Love, Love Is, Justice

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

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  Prayer, Pride, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

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  Sweet, Grateful, Heart

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• Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

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  Music, Men, Know How

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

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  Bible, Biblical, Spiders

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

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  Christian, War, Character

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

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  Home, Heart, Suggestions

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Love is the wine of existence.

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  Love, Wine, Love Is

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

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  Life, Fear, Atheism

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• I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

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  Love, Arms, I Can

  "Royal Truths".

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• Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

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  Funny, Oil, Anxiety

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.154

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• Truthfulness is godliness.

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  Truthfulness, Godliness

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• Discover what you are.

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• Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

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  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.313

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• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

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  Intelligent, People, Ignorant

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

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  Belief, Sincere

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• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

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• Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

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  Jesus, Fall, Home

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

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