Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is using everything for God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
- Henry Ward Beecher