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
love arms i-can
To love I must have something I can put my arms around.
love love-is justice
Love is more just than justice.
time two age
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
heart home suggestions
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
life resurrection christ
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
life men giving
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
life men funeral
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
years months october
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
men broken earth
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
gay bird grew
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
rain flower writing
Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
men trying sake
As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
christian war character
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
faith order earth
The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.