Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 32

• All true religion must stand on true morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religion, Morality, True Religion

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

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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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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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  Selfish, Government, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.227

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

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  War, Communication, Law

  Beecher, Henry Ward (1882). “Plymouth Pulpit: Semi-monthly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  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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• Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

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  Hard Work, Dedication, Victory

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

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  Reading, Company, Immorality

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Men, Amusement

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

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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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• There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Arrows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

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  Tree, Her Beauty, England

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

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• 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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• Religion is using everything for God.

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  Religion

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

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Boys, Men, Pieces

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

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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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