HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XV

American clergyman (1813-1887)


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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Life Thoughts


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The Divine Being brings comfort and consolation to men. He is a God for men that are weak, and want to be strong; for men that are impure, and want to be pure; for men that are unjust, and want to be just; for men that are unloving, and want to be loving; for men that aspire to all the greatness and glory of which the soul is capable.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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

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Life Thoughts


The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

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Life Thoughts


Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

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Life Thoughts


Man's faults lie like reptiles--like toads, like lizards, like serpents; and what if there is over them the evening sky, lit with glory, and all aglow? Are they less reptiles and toads because all is roseate around about them?

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


It makes a great deal of difference what sort of God men believe in.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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Life Thoughts


God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit