Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 36

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

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  How To Love, Worship, Know How

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

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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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• 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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• All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

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  Dull, Plagiarism, Sermons

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• Storms purify the atmosphere.

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  Atmosphere, Storm

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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  Nursing, Men, Nurse

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

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• A church debt is the devil's salary.

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  Church, Devil, Salary

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• Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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  Selfish, Men, Law

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

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Mother, War

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• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

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  People, Worry, Revolution

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• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

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  Prayer, Wine, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.133

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• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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  Ideas, Suffering, Divine

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.191

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• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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  Life, War, Age

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

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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  Business, War, Gambling

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• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

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  Death, Children, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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  Water, Wheels, Politician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.302

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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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• 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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• Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

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  Love, Medicine, Evil

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

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• There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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  Love, Winning, Men

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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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• 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 cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

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  Strength, Cobwebs, Strain

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