Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
