Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 30

• Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

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  Love, Summer, Spring

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24

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• A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

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  Lying, Men, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

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• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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  Lying, Needs, Blades

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

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• Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

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  Men, Self, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.258

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• Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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  Soul, Midnight, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.67

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• He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

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  Eye, Surface, Organs

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

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• He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

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  Eye, Sight, May

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

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• There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

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  Men, Perfect, Dumb

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

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• God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

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  Men, Events, Reign

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

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• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

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  Thinking, Men, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

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• It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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  Fashion, Believe, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.16

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• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

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  Men, Woven, Fabric

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

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

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  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.

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  Suffering, Wells

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

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• We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

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  White, Charity, May

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• There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

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  Heart, Longing, Moments

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• Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

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  Reading, People, Mind

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• There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

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  Hens, Virtue, Great Men

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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.

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  Hypocrite, Play, Spirit

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• Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

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  Blessing, Soul, Reason

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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  Reading, Men, Amusement

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

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