A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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