Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

God's glory is His goodness.