Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 21

• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

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  Humanity, Church, Needs

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

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• The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

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  History, Mystery, Problem

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.469

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

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  Blessed, Dark, Doors

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

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• Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

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  Men, Thinking, States

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

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  Running, Spring, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

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  Heart, Night, Land

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• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

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  Disappointment, Track, Car

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

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  Men, Would Be, Looks

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• The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

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  Life, Men, Symphony

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• It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

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  Education, War, Long

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• Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

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  Flower, Path, Influence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.381

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• A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

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  Gambling, Selfishness, Essentials

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.160

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• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

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  Future, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

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  Law, Names, Natural

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.118

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• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

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  Education, Sweet, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

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• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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  Inspiration, Humor, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.109

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• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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  War, Class, Ignorant

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

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

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  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

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  Beauty, Children, Dwelling

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.151

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• If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

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  Women, Purity, Goodness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.154

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• The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

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  Mind, Empty, Vermin

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• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

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  Women, Race, World

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.71

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• It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

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  Christian, Exhibitions, Able

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.96

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• God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

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  God

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.29

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