HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

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The way to begin a Christian life is not to study theology. Piety before theology. Right living will produce right thinking. Yet many men, when their consciences are aroused, run for catechisms, and commentaries, and systems. They do not mean to be shallow Christians. They intend to be thorough, if they enter upon the Christian life at all. Now, theologies are well in their place; but repentance and love must come before all other experiences. First a cure for your sin-sick soul, and then theologies. Suppose a man were taken with the cholera, and, instead of sending for a physician, he should send to a bookstore, and buy all the books which have been written on the human system, and, while the disease was working in his vitals, he should say, "I'll not put myself in the hands of any of these doctors. I shall probe this thing to the bottom." Would it not be better for him first to be cured of the cholera?

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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 tomorrow.

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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

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A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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