HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIV

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

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There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.

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

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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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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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When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

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Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words--that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are, at the point of the sword.

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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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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

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Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth.

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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

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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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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

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

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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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