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
Henry Ward Beecher quotes about
character men light
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
wall real community
When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.
church pulpit
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
life fear atheism
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
blessed thinking feet
Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.
eye men civilization
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
prayer wine inward
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
war keeping-secrets half
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
ambition bridges faithful
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
grieving mystery last-words
Now comes the mystery.
ideas suffering divine
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
book school intelligent
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
book reading men
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
life war age
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.