HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XVIII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

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Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit.

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A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

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When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

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Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing, and so you are to bombard back and forth with this kind of artillery. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.

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The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

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God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

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No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.

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Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

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Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

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Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

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A rule is like a mold; you pour in the wax, and when it is pressed, it comes out, and the mold is left behind.

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Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him.

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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

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