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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Speak of the appetite for drink or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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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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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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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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