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
fitness health thinking
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
window mark spots
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
humanity church needs
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
titles nineteenth-century century
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
humor medicine mirth
Mirth is God's medicine.
abiding morality
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
humility pride people
Some people are proud of their humility.
generosity watches poverty
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
how-to-love worship know-how
I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
humility true-humility servility
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
learning people use
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
church pulpit
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
apples pie departed
The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
nursing men nurse
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.