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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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
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Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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Religion is using everything for God.