Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFaith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER