“Now comes the mystery.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
“The dog is the god of frolic.”
“True obedience is true freedom.”
“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
“Suffering is part of the divine idea.”
“Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!”
“Love is the river of life in the world.”
“Repentance is another name for aspiration.”
“The most dangerous people are the ignorant.”
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
“The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.”
“God's providence is on the side of clear heads.”
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
“Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.”
“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.”
“Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.”
“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”
“Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.”
“Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.”
“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”
“Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.”
“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
“Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.”
“The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.”
“Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.”
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
“Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.”