Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward BeecherPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 299 pages |
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... eternity . MANY men want wealth — not a competence alone , but a five - story competence . Every thing subserves this ; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses , to ward off , by and by , the bolts of ...
... eternity . MANY men want wealth — not a competence alone , but a five - story competence . Every thing subserves this ; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses , to ward off , by and by , the bolts of ...
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... eternity , committed to us in the egg form , and the shell must needs be chipped before they can be born , and fly , full - fledged , singing , towards the gate of heaven . Yet we grieve and fear , and cling still to the undeveloped egg ...
... eternity , committed to us in the egg form , and the shell must needs be chipped before they can be born , and fly , full - fledged , singing , towards the gate of heaven . Yet we grieve and fear , and cling still to the undeveloped egg ...
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... eternity , admiring his own perfections and singing his own joys , when , against this , with regard to man , the whole Bible fulminates ? Ir is neither the vote nor the laying on of hands that gives men the right to preach . One's own ...
... eternity , admiring his own perfections and singing his own joys , when , against this , with regard to man , the whole Bible fulminates ? Ir is neither the vote nor the laying on of hands that gives men the right to preach . One's own ...
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... eternity , that will not shine out till the light of heaven reveals them ; sculptures , not wrought in outward things , but in the inward nature and char- acter of the soul . OUR children that die young are like those spring bulbs which ...
... eternity , that will not shine out till the light of heaven reveals them ; sculptures , not wrought in outward things , but in the inward nature and char- acter of the soul . OUR children that die young are like those spring bulbs which ...
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... eternity , and from the earth out of nature , and from every department of life , as constant and all - surrounding as the pressure of the air . THERE is a new word much used ; it is ism . Every new or more perfect application of a ...
... eternity , and from the earth out of nature , and from every department of life , as constant and all - surrounding as the pressure of the air . THERE is a new word much used ; it is ism . Every new or more perfect application of a ...
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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 80 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. "Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids ; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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. MANY people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it. Does the spring say, " I will not come unless I can bring all fruits and sheaves under my wings ? " No. She casts down loving glances in February, and in March she ventures near in mild days, but is beaten back and overthrown by storm and wind. Yet she returns,...
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 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.