True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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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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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 do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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