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Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
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A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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If a plant be uncouth, it has no attractions to us simply because it has been brought from the ends of the earth and is a "great rarity;" if it has beauty, it is none the less, but a great deal more attractive to us, because it is common.
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There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
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There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
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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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They [birds] eat what they like, wipe their mouths on a limb, return thanks in a song, and wing away to a quiet nook to doze or meditate...
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
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The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!
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Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Born:
June 24, 1813
Died:
March 8, 1887
(aged 73)
Bio:
Henry Ward Beecher was 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.
Known for:
Plymouth pulpit (1867)
Star Papers (1855)
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