Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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• If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

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• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

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• I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

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• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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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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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

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• All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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Henry Ward Beecher (120)

Birth:	24th June, 1813
Death:	8th March, 1887
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman, Social Reformer

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Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. He was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery. He graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1847, he became the first pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.

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