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
history mystery problem
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
lying flower thinking
Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
morning sleep heaven
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
heaven tire restless
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
christian gossip devil
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
fruit christianity good-nature
Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
truthfulness godliness
Truthfulness is godliness.
future heart men
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
friendship heart bells
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
thinking men states
Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
men looks incentives
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
women race world
Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
women purity goodness
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
men wrath house
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.