Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward BeecherPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 299 pages |
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... door should give it such a blow that one of the boards of the box should be wrenched off , I should be frightened lest the hurt had penetrated farther , and wounded it within . But if , taking off the rc- maining boards , and the ...
... door should give it such a blow that one of the boards of the box should be wrenched off , I should be frightened lest the hurt had penetrated farther , and wounded it within . But if , taking off the rc- maining boards , and the ...
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... door opened for some one to enter , and the red light streams a moment forth , and the forms of gay children are running to greet the comer , and genial music sounds , though the door shuts and leaves the night black , yet it cannot ...
... door opened for some one to enter , and the red light streams a moment forth , and the forms of gay children are running to greet the comer , and genial music sounds , though the door shuts and leaves the night black , yet it cannot ...
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... door and window , and its evanishing spire ? Now , if you regard religion merely as self- denial , you stop at the fence , and see nothing of the pleasantness of the garden ; you think only of the stone , and not of the marvellous ...
... door and window , and its evanishing spire ? Now , if you regard religion merely as self- denial , you stop at the fence , and see nothing of the pleasantness of the garden ; you think only of the stone , and not of the marvellous ...
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... doors , gathering upon the mountains to crash in avalanches , who does not care for that ? Private opinion is weak , but public opinion is almost omnipotent . ― SOME men are like pyramids , which are very broad where they touch the ...
... doors , gathering upon the mountains to crash in avalanches , who does not care for that ? Private opinion is weak , but public opinion is almost omnipotent . ― SOME men are like pyramids , which are very broad where they touch the ...
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... door of Conscience is rusted so it cannot be opened . Hope has but one downward - looking win- dow , and Faith and Worship are cold and cheerless . All these are shut up in most soul - houses . In lower apartments you shall hear , in ...
... door of Conscience is rusted so it cannot be opened . Hope has but one downward - looking win- dow , and Faith and Worship are cold and cheerless . All these are shut up in most soul - houses . In lower apartments you shall hear , in ...
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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.