HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES X

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.

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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

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It is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk.

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Men might spin, and churn, and knit, and sew, and cook, and rock the cradel for a hundred generations, and not be women. And woman will not become man by external occupations. God's colors do not wash out: sex is dyed in the wool.

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A cunning man overreaches no one half so much as himself.

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Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

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There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.

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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

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Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

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That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

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God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.

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There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

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There are crimes that, like frost on flowers, in one single night destroy character and reputation.

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

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What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

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Like the emery and sand with which we scour off rude surfaces, evil and trouble in this world are but instruments. And they are in the hands of God.

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God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

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Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord; but, even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. They take God's ticket to heaven, and then put their baggage on their shoulders, and tramp, tramp, the whole way there afoot.

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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

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