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Religion Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
- There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
- The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
- There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
- The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
- Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.No…
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