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
mankind customs
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
war law community
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
death children dying
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
men discipline defeated
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
destiny men long
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
doors pity
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
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.
flower sorrow vines
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
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.
learning people use
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
perfect storm looks
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
home biographies aspect
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
life men trying
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
strength strong weak
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.