Quotes from beecher henry ward xv

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

Spirituality without morality is rootless.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

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.

No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.

There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.

Many professed Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them, and go on their way forgetting them; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another.

Men utter a vast amount of slander against their physical nature, and attempt to repair deficient virtue by maiming their animal passions. These are to be trained, guided, restrained, but never crucified or exterminated, for they are the soil in which we were planted.