Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 25

• The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Broken, Earth

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “PLAIN AND PLEASANT TALK ABOUT Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.324

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• Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

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  Life, Resurrection, Christ

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• Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

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  Plants Growing, Tree, Shade

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.150

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• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

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  Nature, Broken, World

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

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• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

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  Men, Trying, May

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• One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

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  Future, Glasses, Looks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.13

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• Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

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  People, Maintaining, Succeed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

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  Long, Feelings, May

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

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• May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

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  May, Immortality, Satisfied

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.236

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• Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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  Hero, Saint, Needs

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

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• Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

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  Army, Color, Unseen

  "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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• Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

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  Temptation, Enemy, Castles

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

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• There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

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  Men, Mind, Hell

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

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

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  Morning, Blessed, Giving

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

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• Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

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  Money, Lying, Men

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• A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

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  Christian, Temptation, Coats

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

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• Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

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  Children, Men, Miracle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.249

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• Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

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  Love, Taken, Wine

  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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• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

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  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

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  People, Gold, Treasure

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

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• Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

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  Love, Golden, Steps

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

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  Fall, Light, Christ

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.69

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• Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

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  Home, Young, Benefactors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.215

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• Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

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  Window, Spots, Mark

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

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• No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

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  Men, Temptation, Knows

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

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