HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XVII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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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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Men utter a vast amount of slander against their physical nature, and attempt to repair deficient virtue by maiming their animal passions. These are to be trained, guided, restrained, but never crucified or exterminated, for they are the soil in which we were planted.

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Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.

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Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

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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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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.

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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

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We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

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Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.

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A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

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How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

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

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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

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Men never _make_ truths; they only recognize the value of this currency of God. They find truths, as men sometimes find bills, in the street, and only recognize the value of that which other persons have drawn.

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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

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