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Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 12
Christ is the ideal of what a man should be.
Henry Ward Beecher
So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
Henry Ward Beecher
My life lies beyond the present.
Henry Ward Beecher
The Scriptures make the test of believing to lie in the life and in the disposition. They nowhere require men, as the condition of acceptance and salvation, to be technically and philosophically right on all points of belief.
Henry Ward Beecher
The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Henry Ward Beecher
For four thousand years the strong had been rushing on in the road of privilege and power, seeking greatness. Christ stood in the path, and said, " Ye seek greatness. Ye are not even in the way to it. Ye are going up, but the way to greatness is down. Let him who would be great be the love-servant of all."
Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is now work that kills men it is worry. Worry is the rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Beecher
Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.
Henry Ward Beecher
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the 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.
Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty is God's trademark in creation.
Henry Ward Beecher
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
Henry Ward Beecher
Rain whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart they are meant to be borne they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher
Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober not to make us sorry, but wise not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers ... have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
Henry Ward Beecher
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
Henry Ward Beecher
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
Henry Ward Beecher
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true then your life will be also.
Henry Ward Beecher
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