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
confidence want lasts
The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
law riches poverty
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
education men race
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men.
hero needs littles
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
matter goodness good-nature
Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
men thinking riches
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
art inspiration men
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary impressions from them. Pleasure and inspiration first; analysis, afterward.
christian fall light
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
jesus promise christ
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
heart longing moments
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
wise spiritual sorry
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
men evil purpose
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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.
truth lying men
I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.