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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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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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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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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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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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