Henry Ward Beecher

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Henry Ward Beecher

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

Henry Ward Beecher

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Henry Ward Beecher

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Henry Ward Beecher

God’s providence is on the side of clear heads.

Henry Ward Beecher

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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 Beecher

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

Henry Ward Beecher