HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.

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Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

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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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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Fear secretes acids.

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God's nature is medicinal to ours. There are no troubles which befall our suffering hearts, for which there is not in God a remedy, if only we rise to receive it.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Let every man come to God in his own way.

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It takes a man to make a devil.

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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