God Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

42 God quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher paints God as a great employer who plans and supervises. He likens God's grace to oil that fuels a lamp of love, and says we can approach God in our own way. He even mentions a playful dog as a symbol of joy.

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God's glory is His goodness.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The world is God's workshop for making men in.

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God will not love thee less, because men love thee more

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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

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The dog is the god of frolic.

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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

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Religion is using everything for God.

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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

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Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man…

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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which…

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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power…

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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will…

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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or…

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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is…

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God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High…

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He…

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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression…

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Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of…

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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the…

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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

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Let every man come to God in his own way.

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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

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God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten…

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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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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…

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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it…

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