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The world is God's workshop for making men in.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

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

When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Giving, Soul

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

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Struggle, Needs, Helping
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.23

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Flower, Odor
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

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Christian, Soul, God Love

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Henry Ward Beecher
Boys, Men, Pieces
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.65

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

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Calling, World, Ashamed
Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.411

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

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Mankind, Customs
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Shopping, People

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

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Love, Love Is, Ownership
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.83

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

Henry Ward Beecher
Summer, Morning, Tombstone
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

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Home, Young, Benefactors
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.215

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

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Men, Good Man, Now And Then
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

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Book, America, Newspapers
Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.150, Gale Cengage Learning

God's glory is His goodness.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Glory, Goodness
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

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

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

Henry Ward Beecher
Wall, Real, Community
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.103

The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city.

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Country, Men, Thinking
Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.40

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Men, Light
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.35

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher
Tree, World, Shrubs
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.89

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

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Heart, Heaven, Musician
Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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Blessed, Thinking, Feet
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.16

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

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Hope, Disappointment, Heart

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher
Self, Imagination, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher
Eye, Men, Civilization
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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