HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects


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We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Good men's prayers are carried by the angelic mail; but many men's prayers evidently go by the demoniac route. They are never so bad as after they have prayed.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


It is only God who can satisfy the soul.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

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Life Thoughts


Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


What are called "fanatics" and "extremists" are only the men that God sends to make up the general average which the unfaithfulness of others lowers.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Religion is the whole soul marching heavenward to the music of joy and love, with well-ranked faculties, every one of them beating time and keeping tune.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


We go to the grave of a friend, saying, "A man is dead;" but angels throng about him, saying, "A man is born."

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts