Quotes About Henry Ward Beecher

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

It is the duty of Christians to make religion lovely; he who makes religion unlovely is more an infidel than if he simply denied the doctrines of Christianity. He is a worm at the core, and not a worm on the leaf.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be "made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.

So had the eminent clergyman, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, who had told the world that a Sharps rifle was a greater moral agency than a Bible, as far as Kansas was concerned.

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.