Quotes from beecher henry ward x

When a man's pride is thoroughly subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible while the eruption lasted and the lava flowed; but when that is past, and the lava is turned into soil, it grows vineyards and olive trees up to the very top.

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

Fear secretes acids.

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

A book is a garden; a book is an orchard; a book is a storehouse; a book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.