Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 29

• I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

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  Prayer, Believe, Thinking

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

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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.

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  Eye, Sight, Hunger

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

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• A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

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  Boys, Men, Pieces

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.65

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• Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

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  Men, Good Man, Now And Then

  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.

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  Civilization, Leisure

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

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• The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

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  Liberty, Wave, Providence

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

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• O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

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  Dream, Art, Men

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

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  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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• When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

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  Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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

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  Wall, Real, Community

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

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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.

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  Country, Men, Thinking

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

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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.

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  Character, Men, Light

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

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

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  Forgiveness, World, Hedgehogs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.314

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• God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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  God, Men, Symbolism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

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• A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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  God, Men, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.47

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• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

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  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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  Government, Anarchy, Mischief

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

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• Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

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  Heart, Heaven, Musician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

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• Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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  Blessed, Thinking, Feet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.16

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• Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

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  Hope, Disappointment, Heart

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• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

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  Self, Imagination, Heaven

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

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• That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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  Eye, Men, Civilization

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

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• Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

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  Jesus, Men, Saving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.236

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• There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

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  Lying, Men, Roots

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.320, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

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  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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