HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIV

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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


Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


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?

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Life Thoughts


Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

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Life Thoughts


Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

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Life Thoughts


Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.

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Life Thoughts


Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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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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Life Thoughts


Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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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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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth.

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attributed, Day's Collacon


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

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit