Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward BeecherPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 299 pages |
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... begin a Christian life is not to study theology . Piety before theology . Right living will produce right thinking . Yet many men , when their consciences are aroused , run for catechisms , and commentaries , and systems . They do not ...
... begin a Christian life is not to study theology . Piety before theology . Right living will produce right thinking . Yet many men , when their consciences are aroused , run for catechisms , and commentaries , and systems . They do not ...
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... begin to bore the piles down under the water . There would be neither noise nor foam ; but in a little while , if a child did but touch the post , over it would fall as if a saw had cut it through . Now , men think , with regard to ...
... begin to bore the piles down under the water . There would be neither noise nor foam ; but in a little while , if a child did but touch the post , over it would fall as if a saw had cut it through . Now , men think , with regard to ...
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... live here so long as God ordains it ; but let us not so encase ourselves in time that we cannot break the crust and begin to throw out shoots for the other life . 4 * As it is only now and then that we have LIFE THOUGHTS . 41.
... live here so long as God ordains it ; but let us not so encase ourselves in time that we cannot break the crust and begin to throw out shoots for the other life . 4 * As it is only now and then that we have LIFE THOUGHTS . 41.
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... begin life as at the source of a river , grow- ing deeper every league to the sea ; whereas , in fact , thousands are like men who enter the mouths of rivers and sail upwards , finding less and less water every day ; and in old age they ...
... begin life as at the source of a river , grow- ing deeper every league to the sea ; whereas , in fact , thousands are like men who enter the mouths of rivers and sail upwards , finding less and less water every day ; and in old age they ...
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... begin to hurry across the sky , the wind rises , and the rain comes pouring down ; then we look out and exclaim , " Why , this is the clearing - up shower . " And when the floods have spent themselves , the clouds part to let the blue ...
... begin to hurry across the sky , the wind rises , and the rain comes pouring down ; then we look out and exclaim , " Why , this is the clearing - up shower . " And when the floods have spent themselves , the clouds part to let the blue ...
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Page 171 - For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Page 83 - Truly God is good to Israel, Even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone ; My steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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 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 - 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 70 - Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled ; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
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 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 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 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.