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“Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or cart.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567

Men , Bird , Success

“When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 34

Law

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Life Thoughts (1858)

God , Soul , Flowers

“Live for the other life. Endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Work by faith; work by hope; work by love; work by courage; work by trust; work by the sweet side of your mind; and so be like Christ, until you dwell with Him.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118

Love , Life , Faith , Hope

“Let it be understood that the end of our existence here is that we may be more God-like … and that we are placed here to grow strong and noble, and not merely to enjoy.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 28

God , Strong

“For four thousand years the strong had been rushing on in the road of privilege and power, seeking greatness. Christ stood in the path, and said, " Ye seek greatness. Ye are not even in the way to it. Ye are going up, but the way to greatness is down. Let him who would be great be the love-servant of all." Greatness consists in the facility and power of going down, and not in the facility of going up.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 26

Love , Way , Strong , Christ

“Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

Music

“There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 37

People , Patience

“It is not to come in any particular way, or with any particular experience, but to arise and come to your Father, and say unto Him, "Father I have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called Thy son; make me as one of Thy hired servants."”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 151

Way

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 33

For Men , Strong , Heart

“Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, — as a compliment from God.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 107

God , Confidence

“Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 106

Love , God , Fear , Light

“Whoever lives a noble life for Christ and God — he is one of God's workmen, working on that building of which God is the supreme Architect.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 120

Life , God , Christ

“And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 273

God , Sense , Light

“May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 595

God , Children , Feeling , Light

“…no emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

Henry Ward Beecher

The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, J. B. Ford, 1871, p. 24
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“May we grow more and more like God and heaven, more gracious, helpful, and sweet-minded; and when at last Thou hast served Thyself by us, may we fall asleep in Jesus, and find it no sleep, but everlasting waking in Jesus.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 295

God , Sleep , Help

“The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion. So the immigrants of all races and nations become Americans, and it is a disgrace to our institutions and a shame to our policy to abuse them or drive them away.”

Henry Ward Beecher

The Red Man, Volume X, No. 6 (July-August 1890)
The origin remains unclear. Gen. R. H. Pratt, "The Fathers of the Republic on Indian Transformation and Redemption" https://books.google.com/books?id=WMARAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22schools+are+the+stomachs+of+the+country%22&source=bl&ots=Jcl8GbwmVC&sig=R-frEgg-6ZUZrx_UqCh1cqH4yb8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPkOyV7a_PAhVC5iYKHajpD1sQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&q=%22schools%20are%20the%20stomachs%20of%20the%20country%22&f=false, The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians, Vol. 2, No.2 (April–June 1914), p. 129 cites "the columns of a little newspaper printed at one of the Indian schools during and prior to 1885". The Educational Weekly https://books.google.com/books?id=nWY0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA519&lpg=PA519&dq=%22schools+are+the+stomachs+of+the+country%22&source=bl&ots=hTHXz7Q2AZ&sig=K_egMYGg8RNaVLKxEPiYt3w25mM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPkOyV7a_PAhVC5iYKHajpD1sQ6AEISzAJ#v=onepage&q=%22schools%20are%20the%20stomachs%20of%20the%20country%22&f=false, Vol. 11, No. 222 (1 December 1881), p. 187 cites "a lecture referring to the maltreatment of the Chinese".
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People , School , Country

“It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Life Thoughts (1858)