HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIV

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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Christians! It is your duty not only to be good, but to shine; and, of all the lights which you kindle on the face, Joy will reach farthest out to sea, where troubled mariners are seeking the shore.

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Christians ought not to slander God by looking as if they were at an everlasting funeral.

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

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

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

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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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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

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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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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 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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He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

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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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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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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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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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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

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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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Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.

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