Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 11

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. (Henry Ward Beecher)
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. View quote
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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength. View quote
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. View quote
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. View quote
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Christ is risen There is life, therefore, after death His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection. View quote
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Fear is a kind of bell ... it is the soul's signal for rallying. View quote
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun. View quote
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor. View quote
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It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it. View quote
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Christianity is something more than religion- that is, religion interpreted in its etymological sense, and as it is popularly esteemed. Christianity is religion developed into its last form, and carries men from necessity to voluntariness - from bondage to emancipation. It is a condition of the highest and most normal mental state, and is ordinarily spontaneous and free. This is not an accidental phrase. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life. View quote
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Evidence of justice and law will make but a small impression on such a man, while evidence of goodness will make a prodigious impression upon him. View quote
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And as long as the world stands there will be men who will hold that God is a God of infinite love and sympathy and. goodness with a residunm of justice; and there will be men who will believe that God is a God of justice with a residunm of love and sympathy and goodness; and each will follow the law of his own mind. View quote
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When, O crowned Jesus; when, O loving Saviour; when, O patient and just Judge - when wilt Thou come forth from Thy hiding, and change tears to smiles, and groans to joys? View quote
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The physician says to a household: "Here is a great realm of food. Eat that which agrees with you. The same kinds of food do not agree with all people. If you grow healthy on the food that I loathe, that is the food for you, although it disagrees with me; and if I grow healthy on the food that you loathe, that is the food for me, although it disagrees with you." And it is very much so in the matter of believing. All cannot believe the same things, or cannot believe things in the same way. View quote
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Christ, then, raised men from religion as a bondage to religion as a freedom. View quote
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There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. View quote
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Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. View quote
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What is evidence to a man will depend upon those of his faculties whk at work upon the things which are presented as evidence. View quote
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Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes. (Henry Ward Beecher)
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. View quote
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This is unquestionably a contrast between an enforced and a free religious condition. It is a transfer from a life compelled by fear, through conscience, to a life that is inspired and made spontaneous by love. View quote
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Ye that mourn, let gladness mingle with your tears. View quote
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. View quote
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