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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
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A man's character is the reality of himself his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him character resides in him, reputation in other people that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.
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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.
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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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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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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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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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