Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 31

• Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Company, Immorality

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

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• Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

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  Self, Effort, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.173

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• A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

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  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

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  Real, Sobriety, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

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• All true religion must stand on true morality.

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  Religion, Morality, True Religion

  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.

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  Spring, Laughing, Religion

  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.

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  Christian, Character, True Life

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

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• Religion is using everything for God.

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  Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.114

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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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• 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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• He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

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  Men, Agriculture, Names

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• What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

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  Beauty, Rugged, Sensibility

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.165

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• Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

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  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

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  Death, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52

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• Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

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  Death, Doors, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.363

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• Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

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  Spiritual, Men, Suffering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.233

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

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  God, Punishment, Giving

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

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

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

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  God, Kindness, Mean

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

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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.

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  God, Hands, His Love

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

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• Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

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  Government, Self, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.350

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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.

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  Heart, Government, Suffering

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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.

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  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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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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• There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

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  Love, Summer, Flower

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