A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSee to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhere is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDownright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHappiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER