He 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 BEECHERThe worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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In 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.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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