Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 8

• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

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  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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  Adversity, World, Easy

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• We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

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  Inspirational, Blessed, Character

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.4

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• Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

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  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.248

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• Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

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  Science, Hands, Use

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

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• The beginning is the promise of the end.

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  Promise, Ends

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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• Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

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  Advice, Blunt, Admonition

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• The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

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  Law, Batteries, Destruction

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

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

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  Children, Home, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

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• Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

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  Nature, Morning, Kindness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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• The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

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  Devil, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.82

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

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  Love, Valentines Day, Crush

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

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  Men, Grace, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

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  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

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  Heart, Pride, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

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• Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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  Work, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.351

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• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

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  Hate, Long, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.43

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• The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

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  Soul, Coins, Riches

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

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

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  Mother, Children, Father

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• Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

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  School, Ideas, Truth Is

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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  Life, Good Morning, Time

  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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