HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

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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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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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Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

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If any man is rich and powerful, he comes under that law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

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We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

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Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.

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Many professed Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them, and go on their way forgetting them; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another.

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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

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Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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If one could wallow amid filth for half a life and then wash himself clean in a day, then sin would be no worse than dirt on the hands which water can cleanse in a minute. Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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Good men's prayers are carried by the angelic mail; but many men's prayers evidently go by the demoniac route. They are never so bad as after they have prayed.

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

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It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful.

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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

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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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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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