A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBeauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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