Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 18

• Mirth is God's medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Medicine, Mirth

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

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• Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Rain, Writing

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• Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Worship, Despondency

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

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• The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Stones, Prison

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• No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Church, Pulpit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.56

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• We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

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  Death, Summer, Flower

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

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• Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Christ, Prophet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Oil, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.367

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• To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, How You Feel, Matter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “New Star Papers: Or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects ...”, p.176

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• The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Eye, Angel

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

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• God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

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  Exercise, Hands, Organization

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.37

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• The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Three, Firsts

  Henry Ward Beecher (1971). “American rebellion: report of the speeches of Henry Ward Beecher”, Ayer Co Pub

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• It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

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  Two, Important, Sides

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

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• Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Religion, Pulse

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

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• Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Mean, Tongue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Vices, Reason

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• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Riches, Wealth

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

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• There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

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  Prayer, Temptation, Singing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

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  Believe, Thinking, If There Is A God

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Religious, Religion

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• Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, America, Wells

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

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• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Perfect, Storm

  "Aids to Prayer".

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• No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, God Love

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

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• Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Sorrow, Vines

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.429

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