Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward BeecherPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 299 páginas |
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Página 83 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Página 171 - For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Página 77 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Página 46 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Página 83 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Página 299 - I understood as a child, I thought as a child : but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Página 80 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. "Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids ; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Página 129 - LAWS and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. MANY people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it. Does the spring say, " I will not come unless I can bring all fruits and sheaves under my wings ? " No. She casts down loving glances in February, and in March she ventures near in mild days, but is beaten back and overthrown by storm and wind. Yet she returns,...
Página 76 - April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining.
Página 83 - But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.