Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.