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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Generosity, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.95

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Heart, Giving

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

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Giving, Sorrow, Flavor

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mean, Men, Giving

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Punishment, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.131

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

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

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”

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

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Blessed, Giving
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

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher
Iron, Giving, Justice

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher
People, Evil, Giving

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Men, Giving
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.233

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