Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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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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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.
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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.