Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Lying, Men

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• The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

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  Records, May, Revival

  Henry Ward Beecher (1874). “Lectures on Preaching”, p.235

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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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• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

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  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

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• The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

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  Tree, Her Beauty, England

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

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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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• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

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  Gay, Bird, Grew

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.327

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• Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

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  Men, Evil, Degrees

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.134

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• Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

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  Animal, Men, Stirring

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

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• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

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  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 404, 1895.

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• Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

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  Christian, Lying, Men

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

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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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• 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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• Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, New York, Men

  "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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• Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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  Mind, Mirth, Veneration

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

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• God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

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  God, Punishment, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.131

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• God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

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  God, Supervisors, Employers

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.83

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• God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

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  God, Kindness, Mean

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

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• God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

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  God, Hands, His Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

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• Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

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  Spiritual, Men, Suffering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.233

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• Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Communication, Law

  Beecher, Henry Ward (1882). “Plymouth Pulpit: Semi-monthly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

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  Heart, Government, Suffering

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• A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

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  Mother, Different, Creation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.115

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• A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Prayer, Missing

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

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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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