Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 35

• I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  How To Love, Worship, Know How

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.19

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• The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Needs, Christ, Intolerance

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• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Longing, Moments

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

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• When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

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  Selfish, Exercise, Luxury

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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• It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, Hot

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

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• It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, People, Worry

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• A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

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  Dream, Struggle, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Doors, Pity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “Norwood, Or, Village Life in New England”, p.277

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• Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Destiny, Men, Long

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

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• No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

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  Men, Discipline, Defeated

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

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  Life, Men, Amusing

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Storms purify the atmosphere.

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  Atmosphere, Storm

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• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liars, Lying, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

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  Running, Men, Light

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• Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

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  Inspiring, Education, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “The Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

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  Death, Hands, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.295

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• The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Eye, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.96, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

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  Flower, Heaven, May

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• Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

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  Men, Wrath, House

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• Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

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  War, Blood, Europe

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• Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morality, Accompany

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

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  Doe, Morality, Enough

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

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• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

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  God, Lonely, Art

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