No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
