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
book reading men
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Now comes the mystery.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Discover what you are.
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If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.