Religion Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

59 Religion quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Love is said to spring from true religion, while hate can exist without it. Beecher describes religion as the right use of a whole self, not a misuse. He warns that indifference in religion is more deadly than skepticism.

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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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All true religion must stand on true morality.

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Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

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Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas…

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There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants…

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Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders…

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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks…

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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace.…

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We…

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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied…

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Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort…

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Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the…

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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor…

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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of…

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We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer…

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True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It…

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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not…

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming…

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

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Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is…

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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

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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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