HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

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God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

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All true conflict should aim at peace.

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Spirituality without morality is rootless.

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A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

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Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

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The Divine Being brings comfort and consolation to men. He is a God for men that are weak, and want to be strong; for men that are impure, and want to be pure; for men that are unjust, and want to be just; for men that are unloving, and want to be loving; for men that aspire to all the greatness and glory of which the soul is capable.

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The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.

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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.

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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

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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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There are many Christians who like, about once in twelve months, to have a good revival in their hearts. They think that, like the year, they can make up for freezing and snowing all winter by a period of intense heat in the summer. The remedy for such is not to chill the revivals, but to shorten the intervals between them, and to endeavor to make their life equatorial and tropical all the year round.

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The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

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Men often abstain from the grosser vices as too coarse and common for their appetites, while the vices which are frosted and ornamented are served up to them as delicacies.

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