Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 12

• God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Success, Men

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “LIFE THOUGHTS”, p.154

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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Fear, Atheism

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• The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Belief, Sincere

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• Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Heart, Suggestions

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Oil, Anxiety

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.154

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• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

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• Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Love Is, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Truthfulness is godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truthfulness, Godliness

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• Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.313

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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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Fall, Home

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

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• We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Virtue, Conditions

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 611, 1895.

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• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Mean, Progress

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Discover what you are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

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• We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Suffering, Made, Has Beens

  Henry Ward Beecher, Irene H. Ovington (1901). “Comforting Thoughts: Spoken by Henry Ward Beecher in Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers”

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• The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.29

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• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

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• There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, White, Black

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• There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Soul, Infinite

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.169

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• The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Anxiety, Danger, Treason

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.36

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• Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Science, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

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  Happiness, Medicine, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Spiritual, Sorry

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• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Courage, Believe, Oysters

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369

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• If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clever, Men, Wings

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