Quotes from beecher henry ward xviii

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Men think religion bears the same relation to life that flowers do to trees. The tree must grow through a long period before the blossoming time; so they think religion is to be a blossom just before death, to secure heaven. But the Bible represents religion, not as the latest fruit of life, but as the whole of it--beginning, middle, and end. It is simply right living.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful.

God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.