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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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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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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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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
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The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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