HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES IX

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.

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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

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Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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One of the affecting features in a life of vice is the longing, wistful outlooks given by the wretches who struggle with unbridled passions, towards virtues which are no longer within their reach. Men in the tide of vice are sometimes like the poor creatures swept down the stream of mighty rivers, who see people safe on shore, and trees, and flowers, as they go quickly past; and all things that are desirable gleam upon them for a moment to heighten their trouble, and to aggravate their swift-coming destruction.

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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

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Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

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A cunning man overreaches no one half so much as himself.

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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

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Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.

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Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire.

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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

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