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Christian Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will…
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
- A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
- If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable…
- The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
- We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the…
- If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
- A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat…
- Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
- To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
- A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
- Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand…
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