HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIX

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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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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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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Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it.

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Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.

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A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

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Every well-doer on the face of the earth is my blood relation through Jesus Christ.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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