The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhat I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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