HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

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

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Righteousness is as hereditary as vice, and godly men transmit moral qualities to their children, and to their children's children.

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Men think religion bears the same relation to life that flowers do to trees. The tree must grow through a long period before the blossoming time; so they think religion is to be a blossom just before death, to secure heaven. But the Bible represents religion, not as the latest fruit of life, but as the whole of it--beginning, middle, and end. It is simply right living.

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Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.

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Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.

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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

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

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Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

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Unless you have singing in the family and singing in the house, singing everywhere, until it becomes a habit, you never can have congregational singing; it will be the cold drops, half water, half ice, which drip in March from some cleft of rock, one drop here and another there; whereas it should be like the August shower, which comes ten million drops at once, and roars on the roof.

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Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.

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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

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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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Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

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