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
window mark spots
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
men religion
A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
may immortality satisfied
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
stars oil light
In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
disappointment frost fertile
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
men fabric pieces
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
people maintaining succeed
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
reading people mind
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
heart longing moments
There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
two important sides
It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
art men ends
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
nature wind puff
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
music men knows
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
mother children live-life
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.