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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, How You Feel, Matter
Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “New Star Papers: Or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects ...”, p.176

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

Henry Ward Beecher
Feet, Trouble, Ends
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.141

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
And Love, Needs, Divinity
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 58, 1895.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Henry Ward Beecher
Opposites, Long, Age
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ideas, Liberty, Please
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Summer, Flower
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Men, God Love
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Perfect, Storm
"Aids to Prayer".

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Spring, Men, Feelings
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Henry Ward Beecher
Religious, Love Is, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dog, Eye, Angel
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sweet, Grateful, Heart

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Religious, Religion

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Henry Ward Beecher
Church, Pulpit
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.56

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus, Promise, Christ
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.512

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hope, Worship, Despondency
Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Running, Long
Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrow, May, Faces

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

Henry Ward Beecher
Believe, Thinking, If There Is A God
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer, Temptation, Singing
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

Henry Ward Beecher
Two, Important, Sides
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Henry Ward Beecher
Atheist, Men, Atheism
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.87

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Sweet, War, Wine
Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.222

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, America, Wells
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Mean, Tongue
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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