Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 17

• May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

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  Children, Father, Dark

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• The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

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  Liberty, Three, Firsts

  Henry Ward Beecher (1971). “American rebellion: report of the speeches of Henry Ward Beecher”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

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  Voice, Evil, Callous

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• Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

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  Blood, Religion, Pulse

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

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

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  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.72

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• Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

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  Pain, Helping, Virtue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.372

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• There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

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  Ideas, Liberty, Please

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

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• The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

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  Bible, Religious, Religion

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• If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

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  And Love, Needs, Divinity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 58, 1895.

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• The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

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  Jesus, Promise, Christ

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.512

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• Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

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  Feet, Trouble, Ends

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.141

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• No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

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  Church, Pulpit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.56

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• Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

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  Opposites, Long, Age

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109

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• No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

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  Heart, Men, God Love

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

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• Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

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  Men, America, Wells

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

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• Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

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  Hope, Worship, Despondency

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

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  Sorrow, May, Faces

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• It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

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  Two, Important, Sides

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

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• Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

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  Death, Mean, Tongue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

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  Success, Running, Long

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

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  Love, Perfect, Storm

  "Aids to Prayer".

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• There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

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  Prayer, Temptation, Singing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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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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  Believe, Thinking, If There Is A God

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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  Sweet, War, Wine

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.222

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• Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

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  Spring, Men, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

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