Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker

Lived from: 1813 - 1887

Category: Theologians and clergy Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 june 1813 Died: 8 march 1887

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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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  • The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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  • The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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  • The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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  • The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
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  • The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
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  • The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
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  • Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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  • Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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  • There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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  • There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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  • There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
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  • To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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  • To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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  • Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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  • True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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  • True obedience is true freedom.
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  • Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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  • We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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  • We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
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