Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 32

• God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

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  Beautiful, Men, Made

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• God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

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  Men, Devil, Ought

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

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• Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

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  Men, Names, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.93

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• When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

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  Men, States, Matrimony

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

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• Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

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  Lighthouse, Barren, Coast

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• It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

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  Husband, Father, Home

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• There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

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  Angel, Men, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.210

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• Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

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  Writing, Thinking, Creating

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.228

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• Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

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  Titles, Century, Nineteenth Century

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• Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

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  Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

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• Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance.

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  Bible, New York, Men

  "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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• The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

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  Bible, Character, Literature

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

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• The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

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  Bible, Men, Noble

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

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• If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Children

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

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• There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

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  Christian, Home, Men

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

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• There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

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  Book, Exercise, Air

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

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  Morning, Sleep, Heaven

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

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• I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

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  Reading, Mind, Twenties

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• If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

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  Men, Want, States

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.27

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• Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

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  Flags, Errands, World

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• There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

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  Children, Angel, Men

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• Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

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  Prayer, Independent, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.54

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• Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

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  Animal, Imagination, Temptation

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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

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  Men, Age, Trouble

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

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• We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

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  Mom, Dad, Appreciate

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