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
success running long
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
morning jewels fire
If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
running world providence
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
summer nature stars
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!
nature enjoyment manly
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
mother prayer missing
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
mother different creation
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
men matrimony states
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
men names giving
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
men devil ought
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
men thinking sea
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
suffering made ripe
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
heart love-is oil
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
atheist men atheism
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.