Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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 human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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