American - Clergyman | June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Now comes the mystery.
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