Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 36

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Effort, Soul

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

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• This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

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  Music, Dust, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.85

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• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

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  Son, Thinking, Temptation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

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• There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

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  Worship, Argument

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

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• Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

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  Responsibility, Men, Debt

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

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  Reality, Men, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.129

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• A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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  God, Men, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.47

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• I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

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  Christian, Men, Dust

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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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• 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?

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

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  War, Blood, Europe

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• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

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  Men, Feelings, Soul

  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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• What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

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  Men, Shopping, People

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• What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

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  Christian, Soul, God Love

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

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  Morality, Accompany

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

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• Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

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  Pain, Light, Joy

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• Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

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  Men, Choices, Desire

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

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• Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

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  Fear, Moving, Men

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

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