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Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Reality, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.22

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Cobwebs, Strain

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Land, Soul

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Mercy Of God, World

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Summer, Flower

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Men, Made

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

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

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, Abiding, Morality

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Names, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.93

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Different, Creation
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.115

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, World, Principles
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.34

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Prayer, Missing
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Broken, World
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Henry Ward Beecher
Plants Growing, Tree, Shade
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.150

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Communication, Law
Beecher, Henry Ward (1882). “Plymouth Pulpit: Semi-monthly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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?

Henry Ward Beecher
Love Is, Men, Vanity
"Gems of Truth & Beauty".

Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Hands, His Love
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Clear Head, Sides
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.104

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Henry Ward Beecher
Government, Self, Ideas
Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.350

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Government, Suffering

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Angel, Men, Ideas
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.210

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lighthouse, Barren, Coast

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Nature, Spring

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Nature, Men

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