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THERE are joys which long to be ours.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Henry Ward Beecher
Long, Joy, Fly Away
"Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by one of his congregation". Book by Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1858.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nursing, Men, Nurse
Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

Henry Ward Beecher
Pain, Light, Joy

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Henry Ward Beecher
Church, Devil, Salary

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness, Mother, War

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher
People, Worry, Revolution

Storms purify the atmosphere.

Henry Ward Beecher
Atmosphere, Storm

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Evil, Individuality

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Cockroaches, Rabbits
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.346

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Age, Results
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Henry Ward Beecher
Teacher, Party, Book

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

Henry Ward Beecher
Real, Coffee, Eye
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

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

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer, Wine, Principles
Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.133

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Henry Ward Beecher
Morality, Accompany
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Henry Ward Beecher
Doe, Morality, Enough
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

A babe is a mother's anchor.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Baby, Anchors
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

Henry Ward Beecher
Disappointment, Giving, Touching
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Prayers in the Congregation”, p.88

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher
Army, Waiting, World
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.169

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Men, Dust

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Henry Ward Beecher
Past, Wings, Development

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Home, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Henry Ward Beecher
Errors, Light, Darkness
Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.32

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Strong, Weak
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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