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
contentment dozen faces
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
death home men
Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
character broken frost
There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.
death ends impulse
Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
death mean tongue
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
death doors dying
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
thinking self self-respect
The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
spiritual men suffering
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
freedom bird cages
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
god punishment giving
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
god supervisors employers
God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
responsibility men debt
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
religion individual fellows
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
reading men amusement
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.