Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 9

• Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.40

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• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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  Love, Heart, Flames

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• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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  Book, School, Intelligent

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

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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• Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

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  Death, Christian, Morning

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

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  Mother, War, Being A Mom

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

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• Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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  Years, May, Spheres

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

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• That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

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  Children, Energy, Manage

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

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• Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

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  House, Poverty, Very Good

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• Love is the world's river of life

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  Love Is, Rivers, World

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• God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

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  Life, Success, Men

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “LIFE THOUGHTS”, p.154

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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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• Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

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  Running, World, Providence

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

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• A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

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  Men, Majority, Population

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

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• It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

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  Purpose, World, Very Good

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.20

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• Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

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  Home, Joy, Should

  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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• They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

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  Men, Black, Poverty

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

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  Class, Two, Action

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.115

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• In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

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  Friendship, Heart, Bells

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

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• We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

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  Christian, Mother, Memories

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 341, 1895.

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• There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

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  Education, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.89

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• Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

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  Love, Without Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

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• It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

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  Hypocrisy, Saint, Meetings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.350

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• I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

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  Christian, Gossip, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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  War, Keeping Secrets, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.21

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