Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
destiny men long
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
snow sorrow dimples
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
wind law civilization
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.
clear-head sides providence
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
teaching doe true-knowledge
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
preaching-the-gospel doe affair
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
worship argument
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.
church devil salary
A church debt is the devil's salary.
spring heart men
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.
imperfection needs faults
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
prayer believe men
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
summer death flower
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?
forgiveness mother war
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
church pulpit
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.