Sermons: Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1869 |
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... becomes yet more important when we inquire from which side we shall take our ideas of God — for our ideas of God must be learned through ourselves . There is nothing else in the world but ourselves that can teach us what God is . We are ...
... becomes yet more important when we inquire from which side we shall take our ideas of God — for our ideas of God must be learned through ourselves . There is nothing else in the world but ourselves that can teach us what God is . We are ...
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... become ! Let a man be brought up in a hospital , and let him draw his ideas of beauty from it , and then bring before him a hand- some man , and how homely do the men that he has regarded as handsome appear in the contrast ! Take the ...
... become ! Let a man be brought up in a hospital , and let him draw his ideas of beauty from it , and then bring before him a hand- some man , and how homely do the men that he has regarded as handsome appear in the contrast ! Take the ...
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... become sensi- tive to his love . When a man has passed through religious changes from darkness to light ; when he has put off his worldly character , and taken on the character of Christ ; when , coming out of despondency , the ...
... become sensi- tive to his love . When a man has passed through religious changes from darkness to light ; when he has put off his worldly character , and taken on the character of Christ ; when , coming out of despondency , the ...
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... become parents . When we first bend over our own cradle God throws back the temple door , and reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father's and a mother's love to us . And I think that in later years , when they have gone from ...
... become parents . When we first bend over our own cradle God throws back the temple door , and reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father's and a mother's love to us . And I think that in later years , when they have gone from ...
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... become Christians if a doctrinal basis is implied . I now and here imply no such thing . But I make this appeal to every fair - minded , thoughtful , honest , and morally susceptible man : If there is such a divine nature as I have ...
... become Christians if a doctrinal basis is implied . I now and here imply no such thing . But I make this appeal to every fair - minded , thoughtful , honest , and morally susceptible man : If there is such a divine nature as I have ...
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Page 217 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 89 - And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, C 261 3 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 126 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 455 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law...
Page 322 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 90 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 342 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person : see ye to it.
Page 418 - Nevertheless what saith the scripture ? " Cast out the bondwoman and her son : for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Page 277 - Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Page 52 - And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.