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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
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Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
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Now comes the mystery.
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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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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