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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

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

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

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

Henry Ward Beecher
Animal, Imagination, Temptation

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

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

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

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Henry Ward Beecher
Temptation, Enemy, Castles
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

Henry Ward Beecher
Son, Thinking, Temptation
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

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