Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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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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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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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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It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
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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.
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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.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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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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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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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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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.