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Henry Ward Beecher est un célèbre pasteur abolitionniste américain qui contribua en 1854 à la croisade du Kansas en organisant des souscriptions pour armer les abolitionnistes. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. juin 1813 – 8. mars 1887
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Henry Ward Beecher: Citations en anglais

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.”

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.”

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 25

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

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 18

“Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”

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"Subtleties of Book Buyers," Star Papers (1855)
Miscellany

“When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.”

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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 58

“Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.”

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Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects. (1856) Lecture IV: Portrait Gallery, pg. 134
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“Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.”

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

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

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 34

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

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Life Thoughts (1858)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 28

“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.”

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 26

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

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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

“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.”

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 37

“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."”

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

“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.”

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Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 33

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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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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