Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.
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God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
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Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.