Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God's glory is His goodness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
- Henry Ward Beecher