No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you. Henry Ward Beecher home men death Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. Henry Ward Beecher impulse ends death By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit. Henry Ward Beecher soul mean religion Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! Henry Ward Beecher tongue mean death Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life. Henry Ward Beecher dying doors death All true religion must stand on true morality. Henry Ward Beecher true-religion morality religion The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. Henry Ward Beecher light soul feelings Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. Henry Ward Beecher hair men thinking 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 godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche. Henry Ward Beecher temptation son thinking Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth. Henry Ward Beecher silence men reality He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. Henry Ward Beecher agriculture names men Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head. Henry Ward Beecher debt responsibility men The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual. Henry Ward Beecher fellows individual religion What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? Henry Ward Beecher sensibility rugged beauty Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. Henry Ward Beecher denial self religion Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. Henry Ward Beecher sleep men book Religion is using everything for God. Henry Ward Beecher religion So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep. Henry Ward Beecher death fall jesus Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. Henry Ward Beecher suffering spiritual men There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose. Henry Ward Beecher flower summer love
