Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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