Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 26

• Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Love Is, Ownership

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.83

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• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfish, War, Heart

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

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• Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Suffering, Wells

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

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• A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love Is, Men, Vanity

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.40

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• Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lighthouse, Barren, Coast

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• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Business, Ordinary

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.293

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• You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrite, Play, Spirit

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• Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Titles, Century, Nineteenth Century

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• Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Snow, Sorrow, Dimples

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• Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Blood, Grace

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

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• There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.35

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• When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wall, Real, Community

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.103

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• The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Sight, Hunger

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

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• There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Civilization, Leisure

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

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• Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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• The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, America, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.150, Gale Cengage Learning

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• A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Land, Soul

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• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Evil, Individuality

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Government, Suffering

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Hands, His Love

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Kindness, Mean

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Punishment, Giving

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

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