Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 27

• A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, Bird, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.35

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• So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

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  Death, Jesus, Fall

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.202

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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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• Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

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  Teaching, Doe, True Knowledge

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• Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

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  War, Ideas, Theology

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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  Disappointment, Frost, Fertile

  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. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

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  Feet, Broken, Parent

  "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 who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

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  Winning, Men, Sea

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.13

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• A babe is a mother's anchor.

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  Mother, Baby, Anchors

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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• The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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  Errors, Light, Darkness

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.32

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• A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

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  Christian, Religious, Exercise

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

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• Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

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  Past, Wings, Development

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• Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

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  Knowledge, Newspapers, Miscellaneous

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

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  Children, Thinking, Hands

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• Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Twins, Twin Sister

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• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

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  Eye, Civilization, Imagination

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.96

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• What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

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  Bible, Writing, Names

  Henry Ward Beecher (1869). “Royal Truths”, p.201

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• Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

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  Lying, Wealth, Friction

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

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• The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

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  Confidence, Want, Lasts

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• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

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  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

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• There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

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  Summer, Reading, Mind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.190

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• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

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  Animal, Men, Climate

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

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• A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

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  Inspirational, Mean, Opportunity

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

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• A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

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  Spring, Men, Imagination

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

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• Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

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  Generosity, Watches, Poverty

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