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
beating earthly farthest heart heaven loving music reaches truly
Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart
heaven loving mother slave
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
discovers heart heavenly thankful
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
inspirational heaven charity
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
mother heaven slave
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
men forever heaven
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
clouds heaven sorrow
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
light heaven may
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
self imagination heaven
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
heart heaven doe
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
heaven stones satisfaction
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
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.