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
memories home joy
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
happiness war joy
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
long bird joy
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
past joy trouble
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
men joy world
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
pain light joy
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.
long joy fly-away
There are joys which long to be ours
grief joy immortality
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
gratitude joy affliction
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
happiness medicine joy
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
home joy should
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
compact himself man sells value
When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
next worst
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
good liar lie tells truths
Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.