Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 18

• Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Vigilance, Eternal Vigilance

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• The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Eye, Angel

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

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• 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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  Death, Summer, Flower

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

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• Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

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  Religious, Love Is, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

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  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.87

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• Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Grateful, Heart

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• To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, How You Feel, Matter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “New Star Papers: Or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects ...”, p.176

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• Mirth is God's medicine.

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  Humor, Medicine, Mirth

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

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• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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  Money, Riches, Wealth

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

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• The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Vices, Reason

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• God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Oil, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.367

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• Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Men, Know How

  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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• There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

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  Sunday, Looks, Wipe

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• Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

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  Gratitude, Joy, Affliction

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• October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

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  Years, Opal, Months

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

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• Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

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  Law, Christ, Prophet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

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  Exercise, Hands, Organization

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.37

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

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  Grief, Joy, Immortality

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

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  Genius, Carts, Fiery

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• A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Names

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.363

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• People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

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  People, Puddles, Too Much

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

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• Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

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  Men, Gold, Mountain

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

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• A man that is afraid is never a man.

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  Fear, Men

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• God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

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  Soul, Mind, Bells

  "Life Thoughts".

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• The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Aqueducts, Water, Church

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

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