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

Henry Ward Beecher

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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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