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
prayer independent law
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.
christian evil individuality
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
children growing-up book
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
long joy fly-away
There are joys which long to be ours
children home parent
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
dog eye angel
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
worship argument
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.
jobs men done
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
teaching doe true-knowledge
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
men idols
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
men understanding made
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
men land hands
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
men trouble teach
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
men walking
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.