Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 31

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Men, Saving

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

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• Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

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  Men, Trouble, Teach

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.424

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• Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

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  Rain, Blow, Wind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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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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• 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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• It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

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  Men, Perfect, Every Man

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

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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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• If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

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  Christian, Fall, Light

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• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  "Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature".

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• If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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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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• 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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• A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

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  Inspirational, Education, Men

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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  Love, Mercy Of God, World

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• The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

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  Religion, Individual, Fellows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

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• Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

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  Self, Religion, Denial

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Character, True Life

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

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• Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Laughing, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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