Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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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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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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.
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