Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward BeecherPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 299 pages |
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... sweet as victory , 108 . Destroyers , certain animals appointed as , 53 . Detraction , 143 . Development , to stop , 160 . Dew upon flowers , 177 . Difficulties , God's teachers , 227 . " Dim religious light , " 47 . Discords belong ...
... sweet as victory , 108 . Destroyers , certain animals appointed as , 53 . Detraction , 143 . Development , to stop , 160 . Dew upon flowers , 177 . Difficulties , God's teachers , 227 . " Dim religious light , " 47 . Discords belong ...
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... sweet to the fearful Chris- tian , 296 . Hedgehog forgiveness , 128 . Goodness of God likened to a levee , 1 € 3 . Good will , the mother of the graces , Helping word , a , 29 . 274 . Heresies , 205 . Gospel to be preached first at home ...
... sweet to the fearful Chris- tian , 296 . Hedgehog forgiveness , 128 . Goodness of God likened to a levee , 1 € 3 . Good will , the mother of the graces , Helping word , a , 29 . 274 . Heresies , 205 . Gospel to be preached first at home ...
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... sub- limer than mountains , grander than storms , sweet- er than blossoms and tender fruits , nobler than lords , truer than parents , more loving than lovers . His feet tread the lowest places of the earth ; 4 LIFE THOUGHTS .
... sub- limer than mountains , grander than storms , sweet- er than blossoms and tender fruits , nobler than lords , truer than parents , more loving than lovers . His feet tread the lowest places of the earth ; 4 LIFE THOUGHTS .
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... sweet- ness on our tongues ; nay , all too poor and meagre for our emotions ; for feeling is always tropical , and seeks the most intense and fervid expression . GOING into a village at night , with the lights gleaming on each side of ...
... sweet- ness on our tongues ; nay , all too poor and meagre for our emotions ; for feeling is always tropical , and seeks the most intense and fervid expression . GOING into a village at night , with the lights gleaming on each side of ...
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... sweet commerce with Heaven ? 0 , no - none of these things . He is cold and dead in heart , and mind , and soul . Only his passions are alive ; but he is worth five hundred thousand dollars ! And we say a man is " ruined . " Are his ...
... sweet commerce with Heaven ? 0 , no - none of these things . He is cold and dead in heart , and mind , and soul . Only his passions are alive ; but he is worth five hundred thousand dollars ! And we say a man is " ruined . " Are his ...
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Page 83 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Page 171 - For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Page 77 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Page 46 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 83 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Page 299 - I understood as a child, I thought as a child : but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Page 129 - LAWS and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.
Page 76 - April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining.
Page 195 - Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may inherit eternal life...
Page 83 - But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.