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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Every man is full of music but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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Difficulties are God's errands and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.
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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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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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